December 4 - Hackensack (NJ) - Buyers Laboratory (BLI) is pleased to announce that it has awarded special recognition to Hewlett-Packard for its Outstanding Achievement for the User Interface Design of its Multifunction Printers.

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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY Outstanding Achievement for the User Interface Design of its Multifunction Printers, Fall 2006

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New User-Friendly Design For MFP Control Panel
For the new user interface on its recently released monochrome multifunction printers, Hewlett-Packard has been chosen to receive an Outstanding Achievement Award. The new multifunction products feature an easy-to-use touch-screen graphical display, which allows users to easily program functions and view help messages; intuitive navigation buttons; and a 10-digit numeric keypad. Marlene Orr, BLI's senior printer analyst, said "The new control panel design on HP's multifunction printers really narrows the gap between printer-centric and copier-centric devices. This next-generation control panel has all the features and functionality copier users would expect to find on a multifunction device." "We are thrilled that Buyers Lab has recognized the outstanding design of the new HP Easy Select Control Panel," said Craig Tinder, research and development, Imaging & Printing Group, HP. "HP developed this new interface to offer our customers an intuitive, radically simple touch-screen control panel that visually walks them through procedures, setup and troubleshooting."

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For 45 years, Buyers Laboratory has been the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI's 10,000-square-foot lab, the company has been the leading source for extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products. The company's databases cover more than 6,000 products and have a long-standing reputation for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete. They are available to BLI subscribers in the form of printed specification guides and online via the company's bliQ competitive information service. This encyclopedic resource also provides quick and easy access to BLI's First Look Reports, Field Test Reports, Lab Test Reports, Solutions Reports, Digital Imaging Review and Business Consumer's Advisor newsletters and OEM library. In addition to the testing of office equipment for its subscribers, Buyers Laboratory provides a vast array of confidential for-hire private testing services that includes document imaging device beta and pre-launch testing, performance certification testing, consumables testing (such as paper, toner, ink, photoconductors and print controllers) and print media testing (including virgin and recycled papers). Buyers Laboratory's consulting division, the Buyers Alliance, provides comprehensive purchasing support services to business consumers in the process of acquiring office equipment, which includes the creation of customized RFPs, user needs assessments and analyses of vendor responses. For more information on Buyers Laboratory, please visit www.buyerslab.com, call (201) 488-0404 or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.