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The officeFLOW Model ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
fficeFLOWOptimized Document Workflow
cost reduction
workplace efficiency
environmental sustainability
THE CHALLENGEAlthough the use of Multi-Function Printers (MFPs) helps
to promote an office’s focus on minimizing environmental
impacts, reality is that many offices generally do not have
exclusive 100% MFP deployments.
In a mixed-fleet environment, multiple Single-Function
Printers may promote higher overall energy consumption
and excessive print, and wastage propelled by “all-in-one”
consumable assemblies as well as the proximity of the
devices.
THE GOALIt is essential for the Customers to clearly understand
the true environmental impacts that desktop printers can
have on their day-to-day operations. By eliminating the
Single-Function Printers and replacing them with Multi-
Functional devices, customers can truly benefit from an
optimized document workflow.
officeFLOW ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
These three benefit areas make up the foundation of
Canon’s officeFLOW Model for optimized document
workflows. The officeFLOW Model shows customers why
the answer is clear when considering an MFP exclusive
environment over one that is of a mixed fleet of MFPs,
desktop printers and even MFPs produced by printer
manufacturers.
Although Functional and Financial Benefits are often
integral in office equipment decisions, Environmental
Benefits are sometimes overlooked.
Due to the nature of desktop printers, their inclusion in the
office print environment ultimately leads to inefficiencies
when trying to achieve a lower impact on the
environment. Conversely, the workflows, energy
consumption and feature set associated with MFP
deployments are friendlier to the environment.
Three important benefit areas which customers
should consider when making office equipment
decisions are Functional Benefits of the offering,
Financial Benefits and Environmental Benefits.
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FunctionalBenefits
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Take control of unnecessary wastage
Single-Function Printers and desktop devices may be
convenient, but this convenience may have a negative
impact on the environment.
Employees that have
personal printers on their
desks can print unnecessary
documents such as personal
emails, coupons or
itineraries. This significantly
increases wastage of paper.
Studies show that only 25% of what we print at work is
really needed.1
The remaining 75% of print outs are often shredded and
are not necessarily recycled.
Additionally, the cost of shredding documents should be
considered, both from financial cost perspective as well as
from an environmental perspective. You don’t need to
shred and recycle what you don’t create.
With Multi-Function Printers centrally located in the office
environments, the amount of wastage can be reduced.
Employees would need to walk to the device which means
they would likely print only what is necessary.
Additionally, with full size
Multi-Function Printers
having a set of features
including high quality
scanning and large colour
touch LCD screens; it is
much easier to deploy a
paper reduction strategy in the office. Through scanning
and sending functionality, paper-based processes may be
replaced with digital workflows that not only reduce the
paper wastage, but also have a tremendous impact on
employee productivity. An office with less paper is clearly
impossible to attain with Single-Function printers as by
nature they are output only devices.
Reduce your energy consumptionUsing a Multi-Function device versus
multiple Single-Function Printers can also
significantly reduce the energy
consumption. This is true even if all devices
are Energy Star® compliant.
For example, an office environment with 15 Single-Function
Laser Printers typically consumes between 200-300 kWh of
energy a year.2 If you would replace the Single-Function
Laser Printers with two Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE
MFP devices, the energy consumption could be less than
135 kWh.3
By simply refreshing their print fleet and placing two Multi-
Function devices into their office environments, the
customers can achieve over 47% of reduction in their
energy/CO2 consumption a year.
Minimize your carbon footprintMinimizing carbon footprint is an area that is becoming
increasingly important due to the growing awareness of
climate changes.
According to Gartner, the
average printer operates well
below 5% of their capacity.
The fewer printers an
organization has, the lower
the carbon footprint is.
Considering that most office
devices are underutilized, a reduction in devices is certainly
possible by centralizing devices to workgroups. It is wise to
save resources by sharing printers and implementing a true
workgroup approach where Multi-Function devices are
used by a group of employees instead of having many small
printers scattered around the office.
1. http://www.accram.com/docs/hiddenprintingcosts.pdf
accessed on April 17, 2013
2. Based on Energy Star TEC values for 8 HP LaserJet
P3015dn and 7 HP Color LaserJet CP4025dn (18,000
Monthly Print Volume)
3. Based on Energy Star TEC values for Canon
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5235 and Canon
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 4035 (18,000 Monthly Print
Volume)
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Take care of the consumablesIn many cases Single-Function Printers operate using a
cartridge-based system with both drum and toner
combined in the same cartridge.
Every time the toner is used, the full cartridge needs to be
replaced. However, this does not necessarily mean that
the drum has been fully consumed. Nevertheless, it must
be replaced because it is a part of an “all-in-one”
assembly. This may increase the overall wastage of
materials.
For Multi-Function devices,
drums and toners are
generally two separate
components; each having
their own yield which
means the users can replace
them if and when they are
fully consumed.
Be truly responsibleHaving an exclusive MFP fleet can
be in line with a customer’s social
responsibility activities. Studies
show that firms are becoming more
responsible; they want to do well by
doing good, and often support
great causes or advocate in many
prominent initiatives.
Being socially responsible includes being friendlier to the
environment and conserving the resources we have on
our Planet. It is important to do business with companies
sharing the same values and beliefs.
Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Multi-Function devices
through their exceptional technological advancements as
well as unique set of environment-conscious features like
Store in User Inbox, Secured Print, Job Forwarding,
Department ID Management, Access Management System
and Auto/Weekly Shutdown Timer can truly contribute to
taking your Company to the next level and be friendlier to
the environment.