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What is ECOSYS?

Kyocera’s approach to sustainability is based on a waste reduction strategy – we strive to reduce the amount of resources our products consume, both in their manufacture and during their lifetime. At the heart of this is our ECOSYS printer technology, which uses unique long-life drums and developers which are designed (and indeed guaranteed) to last for the design life of our workgroup printers. In other laser printers, these items are contained in the consumable cartridge and replaced each time the toner runs out; by making them permanent components we greatly reduce the amount of waste generated by our printers – as well as cutting the cost of consumables, typically by more than 50%.

ECOSYS toner cassettes are not only much smaller than normal cartridges, but they also contain only 2 types of plastic which are ID coded for easy recycling.

Kyocera Cassette
Containing just five components and two materials

Conventional Toner Cartridge
Containing sixty five parts made from various materials

To create page printers with a completely new and unique concept ECOSYS - a simple acronym that stands for ECOlogy, ECOnomy and flexible SYStem, Kyocera had to achieve major technological advances. For the unique cartridge-free technology it was essential to develop a long life electro-photostatic system with an amorphous silicon drum, something that only Kyocera was able to do on a world-wide, mass production scale. The new technology drew on the company’s strengths in the fields of applied ceramic production techniques.

Since its appearance, ECOSYS technology has won awards from magazines such as PC Magazine, Business Equipment Digest and a host of other awards from various European publishing titles. ECOSYS printers have a simple environmentally friendly characteristic and a very low overall cost of ownership.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Customers’ printing tasks require advanced functionality and greater versatility in offering different printer functions to different users within a network. At the same time faster speeds are matched by lower printing costs. In fact, the more that is printed the more obvious the savings that are generated by ECOSYS technology become. This aspect of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) was picked up by the media who recognised that with Kyocera the more you printed the greater the savings were.

Long life – low cost! Cartridge-free ECOSYS laser technology, combined with Kyocera high capacity toner kits ensure that all ECOSYS printers have a long operating life, with processing units guaranteed by the factory for between 100,000 pages for the personal/small workgroup range to 350,000 pages for the high volume/high output models. And even when a volume printer hits the 350,000 page limit, a maintenance kit may be fitted for ongoing trouble free printing.

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About ECOSYS Leaflet (425.98 KB) PDF