Moscow, April 12, 2021. – The Information Agency “Business-Inform” (Russia) has declared the nominees of the International Open Quality Printing Contest (2021-01). The Nominees of the Contest in the section of alternative cartridges are: INTEGRAL 12100175 (Integral GmbH), GEN TK3190 (GM Tech), HYB-TK-3190-48, HYB-TK-3190-68 (HYB), the Nominees in the section of toners for remanufacturing of Kyocera TK-3190 cartridges are: IMEX YFX (IMEX), Mitsubishi UT19F5 (Delacamp AG), HYB TG-48, HYB TG-68 (HYB).
The First Stage of the Open Quality Printing Contest (2021-01) dedicated to evaluation of quality of alternative cartridges and toners for Kyocera TK-3190 remanufacturing (yield: 25000 А4 pages) has been organized and held by the Russian-based Information Agency “Business-Inform” since March 01st till April 10th 2021. Both remanufactured and new-built cartridges (Kyocera TK-3190 analogs) were accepted for participation in the first stage. The quality evaluation was performed by the Information Agency “Business-Inform” specialists together with the Russian AQCMS Association and a number of Russian and foreign laboratories according to the ISO/IEC 24790:2017 international standard.
The First Stage of the Contest saw the participation of 36 Russian and 17 International brands. Each brand has been represented during the testing by 50 contest prints made by the corresponding brand cartridges after each 500 prints with 5% coverage. After the testing of all cartridges presented for the contest 4 Nominee-Cartridges have been chosen as well as 4 Toner-Nominees (criteria – de-facto yield, the dynamics of the optical density, the total number of the defects of various types, etc.). Among the alternative cartridges the following entries became the Nominees: INTEGRAL 12100175 (Integral GmbH), GEN TK3190 (GM Tech), HYB-TK-3190-48, HYB-TK-3190-68 (HYB), among the toners for Kyocera TK-3190 cartridge remanufacturing the following entries became the nominees: IMEX YFX (IMEX), Mitsubishi UT19F5 (Delacamp AG), HYB TG-48, HYB TG-68 (HYB). Nominees were submitted to the Contest by Global and Russian market leaders, companies Integral GmbH (Germany), GM Technology (Spain), HYB (China), RMS Ltd. (Russia), Uniton Service Ltd. (Russia).
The Contest Nominee results will be included into the public report: “The Best Solutions in the Field of Office Printing 2021”, which is annually published by Information Agency “Business-Inform”, and supplier companies (Integral GmbH, GM Technology, HYB, RMS Ltd., Uniton Service Ltd.) are recommended as suppliers of alternative consumables for Kyocera printers in October 2021-September 2022.
All the Nominees of the Contest are invited for participation in the Second Stage of the Contest which is to determine the alternative cartridge and toner – Winners of the Contest. The Second Stage will be held from April 16th until May 31st 2021. The Winners are to be declared on June 15th 2021.
Details: http://sforp.ru/en/
