- will save money on paper -- certain sized equipment are required to produce double sided pages!
- are designed to limit the use of hazardous substances (lead, mercury, cadmium)
The potential national savings are enormous, as well. Consider this:
If all imaging equipment in the United States was ENERGY STAR certified, we could save more than $1 billion in electricity costs and prevent 17 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions every year - equal to the emissions from more than 1.6 million vehicles.
Current Specification Effective Date: January 2014
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). The current ENERGY STAR specification for imaging equipment became effective on January 1, 2014.