Reducing Environmental Impact during Use
Reducing environmental impact throughout the entire product lifecycle requires impact reduction during product use as well as during manufacturing. Canon actively seeks to offer new products and use suggestions that will lead to environmental impact reduction.
Energy-Efficient Technologies
Canon has targets for energy efficiency that place it at the top of its industry in each product group, such as copying machines, printers and cameras.
- Energy Conservation Technology in Multifunction Inkjet Printers
By supplying only the minimum amount of power necessary to run each function, as required, total energy consumption for the inkjet printer has been reduced.
For example, the system allows the supply of power only to the functions used when scanning.
The PIXMA MG 6200 series multifunction inkjet printer, which went on sale in September 2011, offers outstanding functionality through high-quality, speedy image printing while also reducing power consumption by approximately 41% compared with its predecessor, the MP630, and offering energy-efficient technology at every stage of operation, whether in use, sleep, or power-off mode.
- Office network multifunction devices(MFDs) and laser printers
In MFDs and laser printers, toner is fixed to the paper by heat and pressure via the fixing roller. With conventional fixing roller systems, the roller must be kept hot at all times by a heater located inside the roller, even when in standby mode. Canon’s on-demand toner-fixing technology employs a linear ceramic heater and a fixing film sleeve with high thermal conductivity and low thermal capacity. The thin fixing film is brought into contact with a ceramic heater, which operates only when the fixing film rotates, fixing the image by applying heat to the toner through the film. This mechanism eliminate the need for power while in standby and, in some products, realizes zero power consumption by the fixing unit when in standby.
Induction Heating (IH) toner fixing" uses a fixing roller consisting of a thin-walled metal pipe with a thin coating. The roller is heated using induction heating by applying a high-frequency electrical current through a coil built into the roller.
- Energy Conservation Technologies: All-in-One Printers (Movie)
- Energy Conservation Technologies: On-Demand Fixing Technology (Movie)
Making Environmental Impact during Product Use "Visible"
Customer awareness and behavior when using products are vital to reducing environmental impact during product use. Customers must be able to confirm for themselves the environmental impact that occurs during product use and the benefits of reducing that impact.
Canon has therefore established the GREEN NAVI Website, which makes it possible to confirm the CO2 emissions of Canon products as well as the benefit, in terms of CO2 emissions reduction, of switching to new products with high energy conservation performance.
Energy and Resource Conservation Simulator
In addition, in 2011 we began offering the Ecology Information Plug-in, which makes environmental impact during product use "visible." Developed as a new function of our imageWARE Enterprise Management Console management utility software for office-use MFDs and laser printers, it calculates power consumption and CO2 emissions during use, making these "visible" in graph or table form.
Device-map view, target-setting view, and view set by user are also possible. These functions make it possible to see when power is being wasted during use, so customers can contribute to reducing environmental impact in the workplace.
Ecology Information Plug-In
