Konica Minolta Wheelchair User Manual

Universal Design Concept

Our machines are built
for everybody’s needs

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ertified 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
ratings for 84 machine features

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Features

“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

Ease of use - an essential quality

Office workers with disabilities, whether they’re wheelchair
users, visually impaired or have dexterity problems - know
full well how important user friendly business equipment is.
One of the aims of Konica Minolta Universal design concept is
to ensure that our machines do not discriminate against
users.

Even the most sophisticated business equipment is of little
value if it is too difficult to use. That’s why ease of use is one
of the key characteristics of all Konica Minolta’s business
equipment. Now Konica Minolta has taken this ease-of-use
principle one step further by launching its Universal Design
Concept. From now on, all of Konica Minolta’s new business
equipment will fulfil the minimum requirements of this
Universal Design Concept.

This user-friendly Concept also complies with the growing
statutory demands for everyone to have “an opportunity to
participate in the global information society” (eEurope 2002 &

2005). In the USA Federal agencies are now required to
“ensure that ... technology is accessible to employees ... to
the extent it does not pose an undue burden”. Konica
Minolta’s unique Universal Design Concept fulfils these

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requirements. Evidence of the suitability of Konica Minolta’s
machines for use by disabled people comes from the
certification issued by TÜV Product Service GmbH, a well­respected German organisation of technical service providers
(see opposite).