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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. Because the two areas
go hand-in-hand, any savings
made are going to benefit
everyone.
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emissions by 40%.
Other technological developments
include induction heating, which is
also the latest technology for domestic
cooking hobs, offering 90% energy
efficiency. In contrast, traditional hobs
waste energy by radiating 50% of their
heat into the atmosphere.
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 who have access to a
password 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 0.2Watt 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 1Watt 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 even
more energy.
Energy Star and 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
0.5Watts 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 just 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 delivers energy 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.
We all need technologies
that deliver low energy
consumption during use ...
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