Nowadays, consumers attach great importance to sustainability. If you have to print a lot due to your job, you quickly fall behind. With the EcoTank inkjet printers from Epson, however, you can sustainably conserve resources and do your part to protect the environment. This guide introduces Epson’s EcoTank product range and shows you the advantages it has over conventional cartridge or laser printers. You can find EcoTank printers and accessories in the reichelt online store.
Environmentally friendly solutions
Inkjet printers are the most commonly used printer models worldwide. The vast majority of these printers are equipped with ink cartridges. However, due to the way they are produced, packaged and disposed of, these have a negative environmental impact: as soon as a cartridge is empty, it has to be replaced and disposed of. Although some manufacturers, including Epson, offer a recycling program for old printer components, the cartridges usually end up in household waste in a less than professional manner.
Epson’s EcoTank printers, on the other hand, are equipped with refillable ink tanks that can be refilled with special ink bottles. These generate only one-tenth of the waste. With more than 60 million EcoTank printers sold worldwide, Epson has already been able to save around 1.6 million tons of plastic-based consumables in this way.
The ink bottles work on a key-lock principle with the tanks. This means you can’t accidentally fill your tanks with the wrong ink. A level indicator lets you see immediately when a tank needs refilling, so your printer won’t run out of ink.
High usability to ink bottles
Who doesn’t know it? Ink cartridges are constantly empty and need to be replaced…. With an EcoTank printer, the hassle of changing ink cartridges is now a thing of the past. The ink tanks have a much higher yield than ink cartridges. The included ink set, consisting of four ink bottles, contains as much ink as 72 ink cartridges. This means you can easily print up to 7,500 pages in black and white and up to 6,000 pages in color without user intervention. Plus, you’ll cut your printing costs by up to 90 percent compared to standard laser printers.
Epson and the environment
With the EcoTank series, Epson as a company has taken a significant step toward achieving the goals it has set for itself for its 2050 environmental vision. The company wants to do its part to transform the current throwaway society into a circular one. Among other things, this is to be achieved through its own recycling program. Epson also aims to stop using fossil raw materials by 2050 and to have a negative CO2 balance.
As a global player, the company sees itself as having a duty to initiate the transformation to a closed-loop system and to extend this to its own supply chains and product development. Knowing that printers are still among the most important office products for many companies, Epson also plans to significantly improve the power consumption, waste production and carbon footprint of all its products. This way, your company can also benefit from greener printing in the long run.
Epson Heat-Free Technology
A decisive advantage of Epson printers is the specially developed Heat-Free Technology. It ensures that Epson inkjet printers print without heat. Instead, a live piezo element is deformed so that the ink reaches the paper.
This means that printers equipped with Heat-Free Technology are ready for use twice as quickly as comparable models – and electricity and CO2 emissions are reduced by up to 83%. Due to its less complex design, an EcoTank printer produces up to 96% fewer wear parts compared to a laser printer. Laser printers typically have more replacement components. In many cases, the drum, transfer belt and fuser unit need to be replaced regularly.
The perfect office solution
Whether you’re looking for a printer for the office or your own home office, Epson has the right EcoTank printer on offer.
The Epson EcoTank ET-3850
With a print speed of up to 33 pages per minute, a 250-sheet paper tray and automatic document feeder, the EcoTank ET-3850 has the ideal prerequisites for home office use. The included ink is already enough to print up to 14,000 pages in black and white and up to 5,200 pages in color.
The EcoTank ET-3850 is extremely reliable and durable – and especially user-friendly thanks to its 6.1cm color touch panel. It combines printing, scanning and copying functions. This EcoTank printer leaves nothing to be desired in the home office.
The Epson EcoTank ET-5170
Space is often a problem in the workplace. With a compact design combined with full connectivity via Wi-Fi Direct, WLAN or Ethernet and a 6.1 cm color touch display, the EcoTank ET-5170 offers you optimal convenience. You can even conveniently connect any mobile device – smartphone or tablet – to the printer for mobile printing or scanning via the Epson Smart Panel app. Equipped with a paper tray for 250 sheets of plain paper and 20 sheets of photo paper and the functions printing, copying, scanning and faxing combined, you can do without extra devices in the future and save valuable space.
Conclusion
If you place particular value on sustainable printing – whether in the office or home office – you’ll find what you’re looking for at Epson. The company’s EcoTank printers are not only particularly user-friendly and energy-saving, they also enable you to print in a resource-saving way thanks to modern Heat-Free Technology and a refillable ink tank system. You can find the wide selection of printers and accessories in the reichelt online store.
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