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| P2P Magaz i ne | Autumn 2013
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COVER STORY
Reducing MFP
Energy Consumption
with Olivetti
According to the energy
regulator OFGEM, energy
bills in the UK have risen
by 28% over the past
three years.
You may already be using the Standby
or Sleep functions on your current
machine, but do you know how much
energy your machine is still using?
Some MFP devices on the market
continue to use enough energy to
power several light bulbs.
As a corporate user of MFPs, your
strategy might be to switch the machine
off when no one is in the office, but that
can have an impact on incoming print
and fax jobs. And do you really want to
wait 5 minutes first thing in the morning
for the machine to warm up before
you can print anything? In fact, some
machines can take as long as 20 minutes
to warm up.
We all need technologies that deliver
low energy consumption during use, with
extremely low energy use when in Standby
or Sleep mode and quick availability when
we require them to do something.
It’s quite a challenge, but we’ve
cracked it. Olivetti’s latest range of
products, the d-Color MF PLUS models,
have been thoroughly tested by Buyers
Laboratory Inc (BLI), which conducts
stringent tests with up to 100,000
impressions. In addition to BLI’s
prestigious ‘Line of the Year’ award, the
range has won the Energy Efficiency
Award too.
Energy-efficient technology
There are plenty of developments, within
the new range to ensure low energy use.
The range’s high definition polymer-
based toner combines the fusing element
within the toner particle, which means
we don’t need the old methods of
fusing and can reduce the temperature
significantly.With a lower temperature
comes lower energy consumption.
This has benefits for toner
manufacturing too, reducing carbon
dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide
For a manufacturer to comply
with Energy Star they need
to meet or improve on energy
efficiency benchmarks...