Home > Products > Find ENERGY STAR Products > Imaging Equipment
(Are you a partner? Copiers & Fax Machines for Partners | Digital Duplicators for Partners | Printers, Scanners & All-in-One devices for Partners | Mailing Machines for Partners)
If all homes replace their stock of imaging equipment with newly qualified ENERGY STAR models, Americans will save $130 million annually, with an energy savings equivalent to lighting 650,000 U.S. homes for one year.
Imaging equipment includes copiers and fax machines; digital duplicators; printers, scanners and all-in-one devices; as well as mailing machines. The current ENERGY STAR specification for imaging equipment became effective on July 1, 2009.
Copiers and fax machines are the most energy-intensive type of office equipment because they are left on for long periods of time - in some case, 24 hours per day.
Digital duplicators employ the ink-on-paper process to copy documents. A "master" copy of a document is wrapped around a print cylinder, and then ink squeezes through the cylinder into tiny holes in the master onto a sheet of paper. Digital duplicators can use environmentally friendly and biodegradable master and inks, making them an alternative to copiers for high-volume printing.
ENERGY STAR printers, scanners, and all-in-one devices cost about the same as standard imaging equipment, but use less electricity. In fact, using ENERGY STAR qualified equipment that meets the new specification (e.g., computer, monitor, printer, and fax machine) in your home office can save you $115 over the life of the products.
ENERGY STAR qualified imaging equipment:
Remember, saving energy prevents pollution.
| Current Specification Effective Date: |
July 2009 |
|---|
In 2007, EPA revised and consolidated the four separate imaging equipment specifications (copiers and fax machines, digital duplicators, printers, scanners and multi-function devices and mailing machines) into a single specification addressing total energy consumption (TEC).
These FAQs represent the top ten related to Imaging Equipment and the ENERGY STAR program.