Products that are not easy to use will not be chosen by customers, even if their energy-saving performance is good. Such products can neither contribute to energy conservation nor help prevent global warming. Ricoh is further developing its unique energy-saving QSU technology*, which enables quick recovery from energy-saving mode, allowing users to make copies whenever they need to. It is also expanding the product line of QSU-equipped machines. Meanwhile, reducing unnecessary paper consumption is important since paper production consumes a lot of energy (indirect energy saving). Ricoh helps decrease the environmental impact caused by customers' paper consumption by offering user friendly duplex copying functions, digitization, and promoting sales of recycled paper.
| * |
Ricoh's original energy-saving technology that enables quick recovery from energy-saving standby mode. |
|
 |
Achieve Ricoh's energy-saving goals. |
|
In the field of color multifunctional copiers, we have developed Color QSU technology using the induction heating (IH) fusing system and launched a new model, the imagio MP C3500 series*2, with a recovery time from energy-saving mode of less than 18 seconds*1, less than one-fourth of the previous model.
In the field of multifunctional monochrome copiers, sales of copiers using QSU technology with a recovery time from energy-saving mode of less than 10 seconds are steadily increasing, thus reducing CO2 by approximately 46,100 tons a year (see Graph (4)).
| *1 |
This applies only to models for Japan. |
| *2 |
Printing speed of imagio MP C3500: color copies 35 pages/min. and monochrome copies 35 pages/min. |
|
We will further improve QSU technology, so that more customers will use energy-saving mode, and pursue userfriendliness (shorter recovery time from energy-saving mode) and energy saving for color copiers.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Data
Learn more about the data of Energy Conservation and Prevention of Global Warming.
|
|
|
 |
|
