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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?
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.
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). In addition
to BLI’s prestigious ‘Line of the
Year’ award, the range has won
the Energy Efficiency Award too.
Energy-efficient technology
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 emissions
by 40%.
Other technological
developments include induction
heating, which is also the latest
technology for domestic cooking
hobs, offering 90% energy
efficiency.
By using similar induction
heating technologies in our
d-Color MF PLUS range’s fusing
units, we lower energy costs
and deliver supremely fast
warm-up times. What’s more,
our Eco timer will automatically
put a machine into standby
and can be set so that only
administrators or key personnel
can use it out of hours.
These new machines also
have a feature that monitors
actual times of use and can
automatically create a new
algorithm for switching the
machine off and on based on
real usage patterns. We’re not
suggesting for a second that
that’s a reason to go home early
on a Friday afternoon, but if you
did, the machines would adapt!
Low TEC rating
All these technologies combine
to deliver one of the lowest
energy usage figures on the
market at just 0.2 Watt per hour
in standby mode. Any incoming
prints or faxes are stored until
the machine wakes up again
and then they are printed.
The d-Color MF PLUS range
also uses just 1 Watt in Sleep
mode. Any incoming prints are
printed when they arrive without
waking the Touch Screen and
wasting energy. This is known
as the Eco Print feature.
Another great feature of the
new range that complements
Eco Print is Eco Scan. If all
you are doing is scanning,
this feature ensures that the
machine’s fuser unit doesn’t
wake up, saving more energy.
Energy Star & ERP compliant
As a result, Olivetti is already
compliant with the EEC initiative
called ERP, or Energy Related
Products, which states that
Standby mode should use less
than 0.5 Watts of power.
To find out how much
energy is being used by every
product – not just MFPs but
other electronic products
too – the independent testing
organisation Energy Star has a
Public Domain web site where
users can research how much
energy their products are using.
For a manufacturer to
comply with Energy Star they
need to meet or improve on
the energy levels benchmarked
for each product speed group.
These are expressed as Typical
Electricity Consumption or TEC
values, which are a measure
of how much energy products
use in a typical working week.
Olivetti TEC values are way
lower than the benchmark.
Real life savings
The following is a real customer
example. We replaced an
ageing fleet of 14 machines
and managed to save the
customer over 6,000 kWh
over the lease period. Using
their energy supplier’s tariff
of 15p, we worked out the
customer could save over £920
during the lease period. We
also calculated that we would
protect the equivalent of 220
trees through CO2 emissions
saved during the manufacture
of the new machines, compared
to the emissions used to
manufacture their old fleet.
There are other technologies
that users need to be aware
of, including MFPs that
use wax crayon-style inks.
Manufacturers of this type of
ink wax lyrical about saving
land fill, as the consumables
use less packaging than toner-
based engines. But, actually, it
takes an enormous amount of
energy to melt the solid crayons
into a liquid state.
Compared to the Olivetti
55ppm colour engine, a
competitor machine using this
type of wax stick ink would use
5,720 kWh more energy over
the same install period. That’s
£858 worth of extra energy on
just one machine.
By working together, Olivetti,
its customers and partners have
been responsible for making a
huge difference to the way in
which essential office equipment
impacts the environment and
running costs.
For more information
call 01908 547980,
email
or visit
www.olivetti.co.uk