KYOCERA MITA'S ECOSYS PRINTER TECHNOLOGY

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Conservationism Cuts Costs
Kyocera Mita introduced the cartridge-free ECOSYS printer concept in 1992 as a means of reducing the user's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while improving the printer's environmental impact. The ECOSYS printer technology represents a fundamental improvement over conventional laser printers.

ECOSYS Technology and TCO
Efficiency and productivity in office technology is based around TCO. This recognizes that the purchase price of the printer is only the first of a series of costs. With cartridge-based page printers, costs can easily exceed more than three times the original purchase price during the life of the product. Kyocera Mita can claim that its toner costs are 1/3 that of competing brands.

Lower Running Costs - Up to 75% lower cost per page
The FS-3800 Series achieved the industry's best cost per page performance utilizing long-life technology. Over its life, one Kyocera Mita ECOSYS printer can save a company thousands of dollars in printing costs. The savings for a company with 100 printers or more is astounding.

The Low Cost of Color – 50% Lower than Closest Competitor
The FS-C5016N Kyocera Mita's latest color printer edition, is cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Challenging the traditional high cost of color, Kyocera Mita now leads the industry by delivering an ultra-low 4.98 cents (MSRP) per color print. Competing brands offer a cost per color print of six to ten cents or higher.

"Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS technology has made it possible for users to enjoy color output at substantially lower incremental costs, typically associated with color."

- Chris Barnes, director of research for commercial printing, channels and digital media services at ARS, Inc., a competitive market intelligence analysis company.

Conventional Laser Printers
Conventional printers use an imaging cartridge that integrates a photoreceptor drum, developer and toner into a single, disposable unit. When the toner is depleted, the entire cartridge is disposed of and replaced with a new unit.

The Cartridge-Free ECOSYS Technology System
In contrast, ECOSYS printers feature a durable imaging system based on Kyocera's patented amorphous silicon print drum (a-Si), a combination of ceramic and metal. With a surface that is second only to diamond in hardness, Kyocera Mita's durable print drum is guaranteed up to 300,000 pages on the FS-3800 Series and up to 500,000 pages on the FS-9500 Series. Tiny ceramic particles embedded in Kyocera Mita's toner continually polish and recondition the drum during normal printing. This virtually eliminates the need for replacement of the drum and other cartridge components, which is typically performed many times over the life of a conventional printer.

The Result
Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS printers and copiers create less waste than any competing products and have the lowest comparable cost per print.

Environmentally Proactive
Environmental consideration has also been taken in the development of the materials used in the external casing of ECOSYS printers. A bromine-free resin blend of polycarbonate and ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene stryrene) has been employed. Bromine, a fire resistant agent, is known to release toxic dioxins into the atmosphere when burned at low temperatures.

ECOSYS Environmental and Cost Benefits
The benefits of Kyocera Mita's cartridge-free ECOSYS technology are twofold. Ecologically, ECOSYS can help to eliminate the environmental burden of used print cartridges worldwide that are now disposed of each year. Economically, by eliminating the recurring costs associated with replacement print cartridges, ECOSYS printers provide the industry's lowest TCO. This incremental savings can recoup the printer's purchase price in a year or less, particularly in network printing environments.

ECOSYS Honors and Awards
Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS printers have been recognized around the world since 1992 for their innovative technology and environmental friendliness.

Here are recent worldwide awards:

• Better Buys for Business - FS-C5016N - Editor's Choice 2003
• Government Computer News - FS-1900 - Reviewer's Choice 2003
• Buyers Laboratory Inc. - FS-9500DN - Recommended Rating 2002
• BERTL - FS-9500DN - 2002 Best of the Best
• Buyers Laboratory Inc. - FS-9100DN - Recommended Rating 2002
• Better Buys for Business - FS-9500DN - Editor's Choice 2002
• Buyers Laboratory Inc. - 3800 - Recommended Rating 2002
• BERTL - FS-9100 - 2001 Exceptional Rating
• BERTL - FS-8000C - 2001 Recommended Rating
• Byte Magazine, Best of Comdex Spring 1992
• Byte Magazine Award of Excellence 1992
• Editor's Choice from Better Buys for Business, Editor's Choice PC Magazine (UK) 2001
• Editor's Choice rating from PC Magazine (UK), 1998
• Editor's Choice rating from PC Professional (Germany), 1998
• Finalist, Best New Products Award at FOSE 1997
• Test Labs Recommended rating from Computer Reseller News 1996
• Finalist, Best New Products Award at FOSE 1996
• Pick of the Year from Buyers Laboratories 1996
• Best Overall 11-30ppm Laser Printer rating from Byte Magazine 1996
• Top 10 rating from PC World 1996
• Pick of the Year from Buyers Laboratories 1995
• Best of Comdex Spring from Byte Magazine 1995
• Better for the Environment rating from Newsweek 1994
• Major Savings Against Other Page Printers citation from Sunday Times (UK), 1994
• Look More Closely reference from Computer Weekly (UK), 1994
• Technical Excellence rating from PC Expert (France), 1994
• Saving Printing Costs Long-term citation from PC Dealer (UK), 1994
• Performance is Incredible citation from PC Report (South Africa), 1994
• Pick of the Year rating from Buyers Laboratories 1993
• World's Best rating from PC Professional (Germany), 1993
• Award of Excellence from Nikkei Sangyou Newspapers (Japan), 1993
• Best of What's New from Popular Science 1992
• Editors' Choice rating from PC Magazine 1992

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