Inkjet & Digital Printing
Fuji Xeroxs A4-Capable Color Laser Printer DocuPrint C1100 Wins Energy Conservation Prize for Its High Energy-Saving Performance and Compact Design
Monday 04. February 2008 - Industry-First, Awarded for Nine Consecutive Years
The DocuPrint C1100, an A4-capable color laser printer marketed by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., has won the Chairmans Prize of Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ) in the 18th Energy Conservation Awards for 2007 (energy-saving machines and systems category) held by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. This marks the ninth straight year that a Fuji Xerox product has garnered the Grand Prize.
In spite of its print speeds of 12ppm in colorNote 1 and 16ppm in monochromeNote 1, the DocuPrint C1100 is compact and lightweight with enhanced energy-saving performance, ideal for shared use in small offices or as a desktop device.
The DocuPrint C1100 adopts a proprietary ultra-small free belt nip fuser (Figure 1) that features more advanced free belt nip fuser technologyNote 2 of Fuji Xerox. This enhances thermal efficiency and facilitates expeditious start-up, evident in a warm-up time of less than 25 seconds after power activation, and less than 20 seconds from sleep mode.
In addition, the DocuPrint C1100 incorporates a device to suppress power consumption of the drive circuit of its engine, which has reduced power consumption to less than five watts in sleep mode. It also achieves 1.2 kilowatt-hour in Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC)Note 3, which is a standard adopted by the ECCJ in its International ENERGY STAR Program to measure ordinary power consumption in a week.
Through these energy-saving designs, The DocuPrint C1100s CO2 emissions in the office have been reduced by around 50 percentNote 4, as compared with the DocuPrint C525 ANote 5.
The size of the DocuPrint C1100 is roughly 11 percent smaller than the DocuPrint C525 ANote 5 due to a new tandem engine (Figure 2) that enables toner transfer directly to paper as well as a compact toner cartridge. Further, although a large portion of the frame is traditionally composed of metal, Fuji Xerox has used a light, strengthened plastic to reduce overall weight to 17 kilogramsNote 6, down around 40 percent, resulting in its compactness comparable to monochrome devices.
Fuji Xerox has won the Energy Conservation Grand Prize nine times in a row to date, beginning with digital full color copy machines, DocuColor 1250 series, in 1999, and including digital color multifunction devices, ApeosPort/DocuCentre C7550 I series, in 2005, as well as the DocuPrint C3050 laser printer in 2006.
Fuji Xerox strives to provide products that are safe and environment-friendly, based on its “Ecology and Safety Vision” formulated in 1999. Going forward, Fuji Xerox continues to develop new technologies and products that make a contribution to customers, society and the environment protection.
Note 1 Continuous printing of A4 identical documents (plain paper).
Note 2 This method realizes high-speed, energy-saving toner transfer by using a belt on the fuser to ensure a wider contact area with the paper.
Note 3 Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC): Amount of power consumed over a conceptual week (five days of operation and sleep/off repeated + two days of sleep/off).
Note 4 Power consumption of DocuPrint C100 and DocuPrint C525 A are converted to CO2 emissions.
Note 5 The TEC of the DocuPrint C525 A is 2.42kWh (Dimensions: 425mm (w) x 422mm (d) x 437mm (h); weight: 28kg (including consumables)).
Note 6 Including consumables.
List Price
Product Name List Price (before tax)
DocuPrint C1100
79,800 yen
Energy Conservation Awards
The purpose of the awards bestowed by the ECCJ is to seek out, identify and commend consumer-use energy apparatus, material and systems that excel in terms of energy- and resource-saving features, to support further development and promotion in the field, and ultimately, to support efforts to reduce the discharge of gases responsible for global warming, such as carbon dioxide, in order to make an energy-saving society a reality.
Apparatus and systems are selected from appliances, materials and systems (consuming energy) already commercially on sale or commercialized following sufficient research and development, purchasable by consumers or businesspeople and demonstrating exceptional energy-saving features. Also taken into account are features such as the degree of innovation, product quality, environmental improvement features and safety-consciousness.