We are very proud and honoured to announce that Konica Minolta product has again earned a very prestigious award. The bizhub C353 was given Buyers Laboratory Inc.'s (BLI) 2008 Pick of the Year award for "Outstanding Segment 3 Business Colour MFP". After BLI's rigorous lab-based evaluations, which assess a wide range of products' performance areas including reliability, productivity, and security, BLI has acknowledged the bizhubT C353 as leading products at the forefront of the industry.

According to BLI's manager of lab testing, the bizhub C353 "was a standout in our monochrome and colour productivity tests, turning in above-average throughput across the board. It was also highly reliable, requiring no service and misfeeding just one time in out 100,000-impression durability test." The affordable cost of the bizhub C353 also makes it an outstanding value for small workgroups.

BLI Managing Editor Daria Hoffman said: "The bizhub C353 proved to be highly reliable performers in BLI's testing. That, along with their very good ease of use and above average feature sets, make it easy to see why the bizhub C353 is one of this spring's best".

Bizhub C353 proved to be a strong performer in BLI's exhaustive lab-based evaluation within Segment 3. The evaluation assessed a wide range of performance areas that included reliability, productivity, image quality, ease of use, IT-related characteristics and security. Bizhub C353 stood up to all of these challenges and notably, it was named the "Outstanding Segment 3 Business Colour MFP".

Bizhub C353 is a high-speed MFP that puts power at the hub of any business, featuring a 35-page-per -minute speed in colour and B&W providing fast output to stay ahead of rising document traffic - with up to 70 opm scanning, simultaneous bizhub send functions. Simitri® HD Colour Polymerized Toner provides superb image quality with razor-sharp text and fine-line detail. The built-in Emperon® Print System enables seamless print/scan integration and award-winning security features; and offers the recently announced i-Option® kits offering web browser convenience, image panel display and Enhanced PDF Encryption. Additionally, BLI acknowledged the bizhub C353 is an outstanding value for small-to-mid-size workgroups.

Continuing the momentum of our three Fall 2007 awards, we are honoured that BLI recognised a fourth product offering in our next-generation series of colour Colour Printing System - the bizhub C353 - for its Spring 2008 'Picks'. With advanced network features and high-quality output capabilities, the bizhub C353 provides a powerful combination of speed, reliability, security and reduced cost of ownership in a compact footprint.

John Donnelly of Buyer's Lab, Inc. congratulates Yoshihisa Ishibashi, Managing Director of Konica Minolta Business Solutions (S) Pte Ltd in Singapore.

About Buyers Laboratory Inc.
Buyer's laboratory Inc. is America's leading, independent, office products testing laboratory. They publish comprehensive lab test reports on office products, each representing months of rigorous hands-on testing in its 10,000-square-foot facility. With more than 6,000 products in their databases, BLI has been the leading source for specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products.

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions (S) Pte Ltd
Konica Minolta Business Solutions are in charge of the sales and marketing functions of bizhub line of multi-functional copiers. Having established in Singapore for more than 30 years, Konica Minolta is a key supplier of full colour and black-&-white digital copier solutions and provides prompt on-field support by a team of professionally-trained Service Technicians.

At Konica Minolta, our goal is to be an innovative corporation that continues to create inspiring products and services in the field of imaging. We also seek to be a global corporation that leads the market with its advanced technologies and reliability. As the progress of colour and digital technologies continues to enliven the office equipment market, we are steadily building our lineup of "genre top" products in each field where enjoy the advantage. At the same time, we are bolstering our solutions and services operations through partnerships with IT enterprises and software vendors. Reflected in our corporate message, "The essentials of imaging," this mission has since the management integration in 2003 been grounded in a management philosophy that focuses on the creation of new value.

Contact: Joey Chan
Marketing Executive
Email: joey.chan@bt.konicaminolta.com.sg
Product Marketing
10 Teban Gardens Crescent Singapore 608923
Tel: 6895 8503
Fax: 6561 2235