Document Masters

We've put together this list of tips to help you get the most out of your Kyocera copier, and to help you do a little more for the planet. We hope you find them useful, and we welcome your feedback on other areas you'd like us to cover.

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1) When “Power Save” doesn't

we all need to rest sometimes - and switching printers off at night saves money

Electrical devices as diverse as TVs and iPod‟s have power saving modes. So do printers and multifunctionals (MFPs). But Power Save is not the same as Power Off - devices still consume power in Power Save mode. So when office equipment spends hour after hour in Power Save mode - like it does in our offices at night - they‟re not saving power, they‟re wasting it.

How concerned should you be? That depends on how much power is used in your devices‟ Power Save mode. Modern devices such as Kyocera‟s TASKalfa 221 multifunctional draw a frugal 2.6W; older devices like HP‟s LaserJet 9050n (thousands of which are still in service) consume 36W. Most devices sit somewhere between, drawing around 10W.

To learn more please click here (680k PDF file).

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2) Printers just keep on consuming power

You don’t leave the cooker on just in case you need a snack, so why...?

Printers and multifunctionals consume power even when they are not printing. In sleep mode they consume a relatively small amount, but they only enter sleep mode after a long period of inactivity. Until then, they are in standby mode, consuming a significant proportion of the power consumed during printing.

Many printers and multifunctionals are configured by their manufacturers to wait in standby mode for fifteen minutes after a document has been printed. Bearing in mind that most documents take less than a minute to print, it is easy to see that more power is consumed in standby than during printing.

To learn more please click here (720k PDF file).

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3) Reduce power consumption by 42%

For some tasks it’s inescapable:

...bigger really is better

If your organisation’s goals include reducing power consumption, one of the most effective strategies is ‘convergence’: replacing numerous small devices with a few larger ones. Where document systems are concerned, today’s high-end systems have more efficient power consumption profiles than smaller devices.

Like all strategies, convergence should be deployed appropriately.

Care should be taken to ensure the larger devices being proposed are adequately energy-efficient. There are still high-speed multifunctionals on the market that would consume proportionally more power than a series of small printers.

To learn more please click here (480k PDF file).