Sharp Earns Three Top Awards From Buyers Laboratory

MAHWAH, N.J., July  16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of  America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, has earned three Summer 2014  Outstanding Achievement in Innovation awards from Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world's  leading independent evaluator of document imaging products and solutions. Sharp  received Outstanding Achievement awards in Innovation from BLI for full-bleed  booklet printing and for control panel integration with EFI Fiery^® Command WorkStation^® for the Sharp Pro Series MX-6500N and MX7500N Color Document Systems. Sharp also  received an Outstanding Achievement in Innovation award for its Cloud Portal Office service.

BLI's semi-annual Pick awards are given to the hardware and software  offerings judged to be the best in BLI's comprehensive evaluations, which assess  a wide range of the most important performance factors for buyers. Its  Outstanding Achievement awards acknowledge products or capabilities that stand  out for attributes such as innovation, usefulness, energy efficiency or  value.

"Hat's off to Sharp," said BLI Manager of Laboratory Testing Pete Emory.  "Whereas competitors require expensive, space-eating in-line and offline options, as well as access to more expensive 12" x 18"-size paper to create full-bleed 11" x 17" booklets, users of the Sharp Pro Series can produce full-bleed, professional-looking booklets with up to 120 pages on 11" x 17" paper."

The Sharp Pro Series Color Document System offers the ability to produce  full-bleed booklets, helping to reduce outsourcing costs as well as production  time.

"Sharp's control panel integration with EFI Fiery Command WorkStation also  breaks new ground," added Emory. "With the industry moving more and more towards  tablet-style, touch-and-swipe interfaces, Sharp and EFI have found a way to  raise the bar even further. This integration saves users the costs and space  typically associated with having to purchase an additional monitor and stand;  and because the same display also serves as the main operation panel for the Pro  Series, operators can switch between the two with ease."

The Sharp Cloud Portal Office solution also received an Outstanding  Achievement in Innovation award. Launched in February  2014, Cloud Portal Office is a comprehensive document management and  collaboration service that is fully integrated with Sharp  OSA^®-enabled MFPs. The cloud based solution allows business users to  access work from any location, connect and share documents and capture  electronic files and hardcopy documents using a single content management  service.

"We're proud to be recognized by BLI for our innovative and groundbreaking  solutions," said Shane Coffey, Director, Product  Management, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America. "These awards  acknowledge our continued commitment to address the needs of our customers with  reliable technology that keeps them truly competitive and productive."

About Buyers Laboratory LLC

Buyers Lab is the world's leading  independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital  imaging and document management industry. In addition to publishing the  industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on document imaging  devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI's US and  UK laboratories, the Company is the leading source of competitive intelligence  for industry professionals on copiers, printers, fax machines, scanners,  duplicators, wide-format devices and multifunctional products, and related  software, consumables and document management solutions. The Company's database  includes nearly 15,000 products globally and it has a long-standing reputation  for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete source for analytical  information.

For more information on Buyers Laboratory LLC, please call (201) 488-0404,  visit www.buyerslab.com, or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.

About Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America:

Sharp Imaging  and Information Company of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation,  markets the advanced, color MX Series multifunction printers (MFP) systems that  help companies manage workflow efficiently and increase productivity.  Sharp^® MFPs feature the Sharp OSA^® development platform,  which seamlessly integrates network applications to create a personalized MFP  that can meet virtually any business need, and Scan2 technology, which scans  two-sided documents in a single pass to enhance scanning reliability and  preserve document integrity.  To keep documents safe from unauthorized  users, Sharp is a leader in the MFP industry in security by offering the most  secure suite of MFP applications.

For more information visit Sharp Electronics Corporation at www.sharpusa.com. 

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