Konica Minolta Wheelchair brochure Certified suitability, Bernd Worf, plumber

Certified suitability

TÜV Product Service GmbH invited six wheelchair users from North Germany to test the suitability for disabled people of the Konica Minolta Di2510 monochrome copier-printer (Di3010/Di3510 & bizhub range similar in construction).The extensive testing procedure involved a variety of tasks such as copying (normal and duplex copying, sorting, magnifying and reduing), creating a booklet, printing (normal, duplex and hole-punching), scanning and refilling both paper and toner. The testers evaluated the ease with which each of these 18 tasks could be carried out on a five-point scale between “very good” and “poor”. Interviews were also conducted to discover their subjective assessment of the machine’s suitability for disabled people.

The results were overwhelmingly good. The six testers gave a “very good” or “good” rating to 97.6 % of the 84 machine features assessed in the tests and 96.3% of the 27 features evaluated in the interviews. The interviews revealed a high degree of satisfaction with the tested machine – “very easy to use” and “the best machine ever seen” were just two of the comments. The tiltable display panel and magnification function met with a very positive response and there was praise for the fact that suggestions for improvements made when the last Konica Minolta machine was tested early in 2003

had been implemented in the Di2510. All in all, a massive vote of confidence in the machine’s ease of use by disabled people.

Ease of use: TÜV Product Service GmbH

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“I found it particularly easy to feed in originals for scanning and the display is really easy to operate, even if you’ve limited use of your fingers.”

Bernd Worf, plumber