Warranty Agents & Service

SBM is Canon’s largest privately owned dealership. With the full support of Canon NZ and this locally owned and operated business we can offer the professional support needed in today’s business environment but can offer the personal of touch of a locally owned company. Our experienced service department caters for the smallest desktop printer to the largest high end multifunctioning office equipment – this includes copiers, faxes, scanners, wide format printers and the MP/iP/iX/PRO/Image Class/LBP range. We carry a wide range of genuine Canon printer consumables and any product not in stock can be obtained within 24 hours.

​Southern Business Machines has been a Brother warranty agent since 1985. We specialise in sales, service and supplies of all Brother products. Our experienced Service Department can repair all Brother office equipment, including typewriters, with the aim of a half day turn around either in the workshop or the field. We can supply all genuine Brother products usually with same day service or at least the following day as our supplier is in Christchurch.

In 2012 Southern Business Machines became an accredited Oki Dealer, specialising in the reliable and affordable Oki ES range (executive series) of multifunction devices and Printers. In partnership with Comworth New Zealand, SBM brings to the Christchurch and Canterbury region unparalleled sales and support for the Oki Product.

Southern Business machines is a small, locally owned, bustling company who because of its independence can be flexible in the extended range of equipment it can service. We can handle a limited range of older copiers, printers and faxes such as Kyocera, Minolta, Panasonic and Fuji Xerox and shredders of such brands as, Shreddet, Fellowes and Sanyo. Contact us to find out if we can help you. If parts are needed, available and it is an economically viable repair, our Service Department will make every effort to fix it. For any other office equipment that we cannot handle, we can help you find locally, the appropriate Service Agent.

​SBM has supplied and serviced for dictation for over 20 years. Technology is rapidly moving along and the analogue dictation systems have given way to digital machines but experience shows us that there are still may people who favour or are committed to analogue system by requiring new machines or repairs to keep their current ones going. SBM deals only with the analogue area of dictation equipment. There is still a small range of new Dictaphone, Sanyo, Phillips and Olympus recorders and transcribers available For servicing, subject to availability of parts, repairs can be carried out by our experienced and creative dictation technician.

SBM has very actively been involved in the selling and maintenance of Brother typewriters for over twenty five years. Initially full time a representative was employed to demonstrate and sell these machines. Although the range and need for such equipment has steadily diminished over the years, the repair and need for supplies has remained a viable part of our business. Our typewriter technician has over 40 years of experience and can attend to any brand including all manual models. We carry all Brother typing and correction supplies on the premises and equivalent products for other brands can be obtained for most machines with a couple of days notice.