Printers and fax machines

You should know...

• Copiers that have earned the ENERGY STAR "sleep" or power down when not in use, and generally use 40% less electricity compared to standard models.
• ENERGY STAR qualified high-speed copiers feature duplexing units that automatically make double-sided copies, significanly reduce your paper costs. Using less paper also saves energy because it takes 10 times more energy to manufacture a piece of paper than it does to copy an image onto it.
• Businesses that use ENERGY STAR enabled office equipment may realize additional savings on air conditioning and maintenance.

Definitions

• Printer: Imaging equipment, manufactured as a standard model, that serves as a hard copy output device, and is capable of receiving information from single-user or networked computers. In addition, the unit must be capable of being powered from a wall outlet. This definition is intended to cover products that are advertised and sold as printers including printers that can be upgraded to a multifunctional device (MFD)1.
• Fax Machine: Imaging equipment, manufactured as a standard model, that serves as a hard copy output device whose primary function is sending and receiving information. Plain paper fax machines are also included, eg., ink jet/bubble jet, laser/LED, and thermal transfer. The unit must be capable of being powered from a wall outlet. This definition is intended to cover products that are advertised and sold as fax machines.
• Combination Printer/Fax Machine: Imaging equipment manufactured as a standard model that serves as both a fully-functional printer and fax machine. This definition is intended to cover products that are marketed and sold as a combination printer/fax device.
• Mailing Machine: Imaging equipment that serves to print postage onto mail pieces. The unit must be capable of being powered from a wall outlet. This definition is intended to cover products that are advertised and sold as mailing machines.
• Standard Model: The term used to describe a product and its bundled features as marketed and sold by the Partner and as manufactured for its intended use.
• Print Speed: Pages per minute (ppm) measures the printing speed of a model. Print speed corresponds to the product's print speed as advertised by Partner. For Line Printers (e.g., dot matrix/impact printers), print speed is based on the method established in ISO 10561.

  For wide format printers designed to handle primarily A2 paper or larger, the print speed is specified in terms of monochrome text output at the default resolution. The print speed measured as A2 or A0-sized prints per minute, shall be converted into A4-sized print speeds as follows: (a) One A2 print per minute is equivalent to four A4 prints per minute; (b) One A0 print per minute is equivalent to 16 A4 prints per minute.

  For mailing machines, pages per minute (ppm) are considered equivalent to mail pieces per minute (mppm).

• Sleep Mode: The condition that exists when the product is not producing hard copy output or receiving hard copy input and is consuming less power than when in a standby mode. In the transition from Sleep Mode to Active Mode, there may be some delay in the production of hard copy output, however there shall be no delay in the acceptance of information from a network or other input sources. The product enters this mode within a specified time period after the last hard copy output was produced.
• Wake Event: As used in this agreement, a "wake event" is defined as a user, programmemed, or external event or stimulus that causes the unit to transition from its standby or Sleep Mode to its active mode of operation. A "wake event" does not include network related polling queries or "pings" that commonly occur in network environments.
• Effective Date: Products shipped from this date must meet the specification to qualify.

Key product criteria

• Automatically enter a low-power "sleep" mode after a period of inactivity
• Separate specifications available for stand-alone printer models depending on paper handling size and colour capabilities.

Table 1: Tier 1
Standard Size Printers and Printer/Fax Combinations* (11/1/00 - 10/31/02)
(designated to accommodate primarily A3 or A4)

Product Speed in Pages Per Minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)#	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 10±	< 5 minutes
10 < ppm < 20	< 20±	< 15 minutes
20 < ppm < 30	< 30	< 30 minutes
30 < ppm < 44	< 40	< 60 minutes
44 < ppm	< 75	< 60 minutes

Table 2: Tier 1 Impact Printers
designed to accommodate primarily A3 paper (11/1/00 - 10/31/02)

Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
< 30	< 30 minutes

Table 3: Tier 1 Large/Wide-Format Printers
(11/1/00 - 10/31/02) (designed to accommodate primarily A2 or larger)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)#	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 35	< 30 minutes
10 < ppm < 40	< 65	< 30 minutes
40 < ppm	< 100	< 90 minutes

Table 4: Tier 1
Colour Printers** (11/1/00 - 10/31/02)
(designed to accommodate primarily A3 or A4)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)#	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 35±	< 30 minutes
10 < ppm < 20	< 45	< 60 minutes
20 < ppm	< 70	< 60 minutes

Table 5
Stand Alone Fax Machine (11/1/00 - 10/31/03)
(designed to accommodate primarily A4)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 10	< 5 minutes
10 < ppm	< 15	< 5 minutes

Table 6
Mailing Machines (11/1/00 - 10/31/03)

Product Speed in Mail Pieces per minute (mppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep
Mode 0 < mppm < 50	< 10	< 20 minutes
50 < mppm	< 100 < 30	< 30 minutes
100 < mppm	< 150 < 50	< 40 minutes
150 < mppm	< 85	< 60 minutes

Table 7: Tier 2
Standard Size Printers and Printer/Fax Combinations** (11/1/01 - 10/31/03)
(designed to accommodate primarily A3 or A4)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 10	< 5 minutes
10 < ppm < 20	< 20	< 15 minutes
20 < ppm < 30	< 30	< 30 minutes
30 < ppm < 44	< 40	< 60 minutes
44 < ppm	< 75	< 60 minutes

Table 8: Tier 2
Impact Printers designed to accommodate primarily A3 paper (11/1/01 - 10/31/03)

Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
< 28	< 30 minutes

Table 9: Tier 2
Large/Wide-Format Printers (11/1/01 - 10/31/03)
(designed to accommodate primarily A2)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 35	< 30 minutes
10 < ppm < 40	< 65	< 30 minutes
40 < ppm	< 100	< 90 minutes

Table 10: Tier 2
Colour Printers** (11/1/01 - 10/31/03)
(designed to accommodate primarily A3 or A4)

Product Speed in Pages per minute (ppm)	Sleep Mode (Watts)	Default Time to Sleep Mode
0 < ppm < 10	< 35	< 30 minutes
10 < ppm < 20	< 45	< 60 minutes
20 < ppm	< 70	< 60 minutes

*Including monochrome electrophotography, monochrome thermal transfer, and monochrome and colour ink jet.

^# For printers that utilize a functionally integrated computer, whether contained within or outside of the printer cabinet, the power consumption of the computer does not have to be included when determining the sleep mode value of the printer unit. However, the integration of the computer must not interfere with the ability of the printer to enter or exit its Sleep Mode state. This provision is conditioned upon the manufacturer agreeing to provide potential customers with product literature that clearly states that the power consumed by the integrated computer is in addition to the power consumed by the printer unit, especially when the printer unit is in Sleep Mode.

^± For Tier 1, a one-time 5-Watt allowance is permitted for those products that are shipped "network ready" (i.e., inclusive of network functionality "out of the box"). For those products shipped as not "network ready", the additional one-time 5-Watt allowance does not apply.

**Including colour electrophotography and colour thermal transfer.

Further information can be found on the US EPA Energy Star web site - www.energystar.gov