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About the Award
What is an Editor’s Choice Award?
This award signifies the best values in each product cate-
gory, as determined independently by our expert editori-
al staff.
How often are awards given?
Our Editor’s Choice ratings are awarded once per year
with each updated guide.
What are the selection criteria?
In each Better Buys guide, we evaluate models from all
major manufacturers. Machines are rigorously analyzed
to determine (1) the strength of their features and specifi-
cations and (2) how they stack up against competitors.
Our independent Editor’s Choice Awards go to those
models that we believe will deliver the highest levels of
performance and offer the greatest value for consumers in
agiven price range.
What categories are judged?
There are four awards categories: economy models,
workgroup models/letter-size (priced under $1,000),
workgroup models/letter-size (priced over $1,000), and
workgroup models/ledger-size.
Where can I find information about each
brand and model?
The pagereferences at the right show where to turn for
write-ups in the Vendor & Product Profiles section and
for entries in the Specification & Price charts.For exam-
ple,“Ricoh Aficio CL3500N — pages 36 & 106” means
that the product profile appears on page 36 and the spec-
ifications and price appear on page106. The models in
parentheses are relabeled versions of the ones immediate-
ly above them and share our Editor’s Choice rating.
Economy Models/Letter-size ($499 and under)
Lexmark C530/C532 family — pages 26 and 94–96
OKI Printing Solutions C3400n — pages 31 and 100
Ricoh GX3000/GX3050N/GX5050N — pages 39 and 109
Samsung CLP-600N — pages 43 and 113
Workgroup Models/Letter-size ($500 to $999)
Lexmark C534 family—pages 26 and 94–96
OKI Printing Solutions C5500n/C5800Ldn — pages 31 and 100
Ricoh Aficio CL3500N — pages 37 and 106
(Gestetner C7521n — pages 7 and 72)
(Lanier LP222cn — pages 24 and 92)
(Savin CLP22 — pages 44 and 114)
Samsung CLP-650N — pages 43 and 113
Workgroup Models/Letter-size ($1,000 and over)
Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 4700 family —
pages 12 and 79–80
Kyocera FS-C5015N/FS-C5025N — pages 21 and 89–90
Lexmark C770/C772 family—pages 27 and 96–97
(IBM Infoprint Color 1654 family — pages 16 and 84)
(IBM Infoprint Color 1664 family — pages 16 and 84–85)
(Unisys UDS 579-DN1 — pages 48 and 118)
Workgroup Models/Ledger-size
Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 5550 family —
pages 14 and 81–82
Lexmark C920 family — pages 29 and 98–99
(IBM Infoprint Color 1567 — pages 16 and 85)
(Toshiba e-STUDIO360 CP — pages 48 and 117)
Konica Minolta magicolor 7450 — pages 19 and 88
Ricoh Aficio CL7200 — pages 39 and 107–108
(Gestetner C7528n/nD — pages 7 and 72–73)
(Lanier LP332cdn/cdtn — pages 25 and 93)
(Savin CLP128 — pages 44 and 114)
Xerox Phaser 7760 family — pages 55 and 124
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