Development of User-Friendly and Energy-Saving
Technologies
Concept
Products that are not easy to use will not
be chosen by consumers, even if their energy-saving performance is good.
Such products can neither contribute to energy conservation nor help prevent
global warming. Ricoh constantly strives to improve its user-friendly and
energy-saving technology, QSU*1, and introduce it into various
products. Also, the company is highly committed to reducing environmental
impact caused by paper consumption, which is the
largest cause of environmental impact related to Ricoh's business activities.
Ricoh helps decrease environmental impacts caused by consumers' paper consumption
by offering a duplex copying function, promoting the use of electronic paper,
and aggressively marketing recycled paper.
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Energy-saving technology developed originally by Ricoh that enables machines to recover quickly from energy-saving mode (off/sleep mode).
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Targets for Fiscal 2004
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Achieve Ricoh's energy-saving goals. |
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Develop practical application technologies
for alternative paper and rewritable paper. |
Review of Fiscal 2003
Ricoh enriched its black-and-white
energy-saving product line by marketing the black-and-white high-speed
digital multifunctional copier that achieved the highest energy consumption
efficiency among products of the same class. Reduction in CO2
emissions through the use of QSU technology amounted to approximately
15,000 tons in fiscal 2003 (see graph(5)).
Regarding the application of alternative paper, Ricoh marketed a product
to which the integrated technology of an IC tag and rewritable medium
has been introduced.
Future Activities
Ricoh will promote the introduction
of user-friendly and energy-saving technologies to color copiers by
improving the QSU technology and developing new energy-saving technologies.
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