Kyocera’s FS-2100DN
The OEM’s FS-2100DN machine is the first of its printers to be registered with EPEAT.
The machine, an “advanced network printer”, is Kyocera’s first machine in the EU to be registered at the silver level with EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool), having met the “rigorous standards” required, and the OEM notes that it is “pressing ahead to have all products that have gained the registration in the US certified in the UK”.
EPEAT, as Kyocera notes, is a “global rating system” for electronics that began in the USA and has spread across the globe in the last few years, with India recently beginning to enforce the system in July. The system adopted an imaging equipment category in February last year, and imaging equipment began to be added to it in September 2013.
The imaging equipment category includes MFPs and printers as well as consumables, with 59 criteria set up including 33 “mandatory” criteria consisting of “recovery and recycling of products and consumables”. Products meeting all 33 criteria are registered at bronze level, whilst those that meet all 33 and 50 percent of “optional” criteria are eligible for silver. Gold registration meanwhile is given to products that meet all 33 mandatory criteria and 75 percent of the optional criteria.
Tracey Rawling Church, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Kyocera UK, commented: “We are delighted that the FS-2100DN has become the first KYOCERA product which can display the silver EPEAT registration in the whole of the EU region. When it comes to the environment-friendliness of our products, we are relentless in our efforts to increase performance and this certification is clear evidence that our investment is paying dividends.”