Top Ten MFP "Browny Awards" for 2008

Print4Pay Hotels Annual Top Ten Picks of 2008.

We are continuing the tradition of giving a Browny Award to those systems or software that best exemplify innovation in our industry.

As 2008 winds to a close, yippee!!, I think most of us will agree that putting 08 behind us is the best think to happen this year.

The Print4Pay Hotels Browny Awards were first introduced in 2007. The use of the word Browny is derived from a Print4Pay Hotel member.

When the P4PHotel was in its infancy back in 2004, and we had 200 or so members, one member stood out among the others. His name is Greg Brown, Greg and I became mentors (and friends) to each other and we often called each other about the business and just to keep in touch. In March of 2004, Greg and I were finally going to met at the AIIM/OnDemand Show in NYC.

Unfortunately and sadly Greg Brown was killed in a car accident on Valentines Day of 2004. Greg loved selling Ricoh Products, along with Water Skiing, and powered down by a dose of Xbox. In less than one year Greg had amassed 285 posts on the P4P and was truly one of the first "Docusultants". So, in his memory and hence forth, when we do our top ten each year we'll call them the Brownys! What makes a Browny? An innovative feature on a system, a system that filled a void for end users or just the style or awesome power of the unit.

Winners of the 2008 Browny Award from the P4PHotel! In no particular order.

1. Samsung SCX 6555N (55 ppm MFP with no 11x17)



2. EIS Supra Series (Wide Format Color MFP)
   
   
3. Print Audit Green (Print Management Software)



4. Sharp Frontier Line Series (MX C301 and MX C411)



5. Muratec C4000 (Coolest Color A4 you ever saw)



6. Okidata 3641 (36ppm Color, Print Shop in a Box)



7. Kyocera TASKalpha 500ci (Coolest Color A3 you ever saw)



8. Ricoh C900 (90ppm Color, Ring Binding, Perfect Binding and much more)



9. Canon introduces imagePRESS 1135/1125/1110 (Suction Feeder and Air Assist)



10. Formax 6202 Series Inserters (The Biggest Little Inserter in the Business)
    

There you have it, my picks for the 2008 Browny Awards. Greg, we didn't forget about you buddy!

-=Good Selling=-

The Brownys (P4P's Top Ten Picks) for 2007

I've wanted to do a Top Ten Picks for quite awhile and I guess the end of the year is a good time to look back and reflect on the products of 2007.

When the P4PHotel was in its infancy back in 2004, and we had 200 or so members, one member stood out among the others. His name is Greg Brown, Greg and I became mentors to each other and we often called each other about the business and just to keep in touch. In March of 2004, Greg and I were finally going to met at the AIIM/OnDemand Show in NYC.

Unfortunately and sadly Greg Brown was killed in a car accident on Valentines Day of 2004. Greg loved selling Ricoh Products, along with Water Skiing, and powered down by a dose of Xbox. In less than one year Greg had amassed 285 posts on the P4P and was truly one of the first "Docusultants". So, in his memory and hence forth, when we do our top ten each year we'll call them the Brownys! What makes a Browny? An innovative feature on a system, a system that filled a void for end users or just the style or awesome power of the unit.

Winners of the 2007 Browny Award from the P4PHotel!

1. Samsung 6345N (45 ppm MFP with no 11x17)


2. EIS Quatra Series (Wide Format Color MFP)


3. KonicaMinolta BizHub C550 (Coolest feature with Biometric scanning)


4. Ricoh DX 4640PD (Duplexing Duplicator, innovative for duplicators)


5. Xerox Nuvera 288 (288 ppm, awesome, plus it looks cool)


6. Formax FD170 Bookletmaker (Offline Bookletmaking becomes affordable)


7. Canon imagePRESS C7000VP Digital Press (70ppm Color @ 1200x1200 dpi)


8. Panasonic C3 Series MFP's (The colors of the machines are awesome)


9. Ricoh MP C2000SPF (20ppm Color MFP, affordable color to the office)


10. Ram Logic (Ram Speed, Scotti give me more speed, innovative chip to make MFPs run faster)

There you have it, my picks for the 2007 Browny Awards. Greg, we didn't forget about you buddy!