Inkjet & Digital Printing
RISOS PRINTERS ARE SHOWCASED IN BC HYDROS POWER SMART e.CATALOG
Monday 12. October 2009 - Products included in BC Hydros e.Catalog must meet specific energy efficiency standards specified by Power Smart Engineering
RISO, Inc ., a leader in digital printing technology, announced today that its suite of high-speed ComColor inkjet printers and digital duplicators are featured in BC Hydros e.Catalog . The catalog showcases RISOs entire ComColor series (9050, 7050, 7010, 3050 and 3010) along with its five duplicator models (MZ790, RZ990, EZ590, EZ390 and EZ220). As the third largest electric utility in Canada, BC Hydro serves customers in an area containing over 94 percent of British Columbias population.
BC Hydros e.Catalog is a resource for businesses to find equipment that is energy efficient and environmentally friendly and includes products from multiple manufacturers. All printers that are chosen to be included in the e.Catalog must meet specific energy efficiency standards, used by the US Department of Energy (DOE) known as ENERGY STAR or the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP).
“We are so pleased that our ComColor inkjet printers and digital duplicators have been selected to be included in BC Hydros list of energy efficient technologies and we are thrilled that ours are the first printers of their kind to be featured there,” said David Murphy, vice president of marketing for RISO, Inc. “This list reinforces other tests and studies including the third party validation from Buyers Laboratory that RISO printers are energy efficient, environmentally friendly and use less energy than comparable models.”
A study from Buyers Laboratory Inc., (BLI) measured RISO digital duplicators and inkjet printers against competing MFP models. The results proved that RISOs digital duplicator models and the inkjet printer consume up to 95 percent less energy than conventional printing equipment and offer energy costs that are considerably less than the comparable model. Thus, providing users with potential cost savings of thousands of dollars in energy consumption over a five-year lease.
RISOs digital duplicators earned the ENERGY STAR
RISOs recently launched ComColor high-speed inkjet printers produce up to 150 color pages per minute (ppm) for about half of the operating costs of comparable toner-based production printers. Capable of producing up to 500,000 pages per month, applications include variable data envelopes, transactional documents, direct mail, and more.