Moscow, January 22, 2020. – Information Agency “Business-Inform” (Russia) declared the winning brands of ‘Open Quality Printing Contest’ (Stage 2: Evaluation of Cartridge Printing Quality). The following brands are declared winners: MSE (Clover, USA), ProfiLine (RM Company, Russia), HYB (Zhuhai HaoYinBao Printing Consumables Co., Ltd., China).
The Second Stage of the ‘Open Quality Printing Contest’, dedicated to evaluation of the compatible cartridge printing quality was organized and performed by the Russian Information Agency “Business-Inform” during the period between October 20, 2019 and January 20, 2020. Accepted for participation were both remanufactured and new-build compatible cartridges CF226X (yield — 9000 pages). The evaluation of quality has been performed according to the Russian method of standardized testing LEM 2.01.19, certified in Russia (registration # РОСС RU. 32155.04ЛЭМ0) and recommended by AQCMS (The Association of Quality Cartridge Manufacturers and Suppliers) for performing comparative research on Russian territory.
34 brands took part in the Second Stage of the Contest. Each brand presented compatible cartridge CF226X for laser printing. Note, that besides cartridges presented to the Contest by their manufacturers and distributors, the Contest also saw cartridges presented by the Russian largest compatible-cartridges-buyer companies. After performing the expertise 12 nominee-brands have been chosen (criterion – fact yield, optical densities and minimal general amount of defects in the set of printouts made by test cartridge). The nominees of the Second Stage were: MSE, Dataproducts, freecolor, Turbon, G&G, Retech, Solnce, HYB, ProfiLine, UniTon, 7Q, Tonex.
The additional expertise of printouts presented by the nominee-brands has allowed us to determine the winners of the Second Stage of ‘Open Quality Printing Contest’ (criterion – the number of printouts presented by a brand with zero defects detected). The winners have been: MSE (Clover, USA), ProfiLine (RM Company, Russia), HYB (Zhuhai HaoYinBao Printing Consumables Co., Ltd., China).
The organizers of the Second Stage of the International ‘Open Quality Printing Contest’ are paying attention of the participants to the fact that it is the Russian method of testing LEM 2.01.19 has been certified in Russia and is being basic and the only legal method for certifying both remanufactured and/or new-build compatible laser cartridges for the quality mark of office printing LEM.
Also the organizers of the Contest are paying the attention of its participants to the fact that the third stage of the Contest (dedicated to the evaluation of the quality of toner for remanufacturing of OEM laser-cartridges) will begin on February the 1st, 2020.
Regarding the issues of participation in the Third Stage of ‘Open Quality Printing Contest’ please contact the Russian Information Agency “Business-Inform”,
e-mail: bizinform@list.ru (subject: ‘Cartridge Contest’),
tel.+7 495 9886146.
