The RISO Way to Print
Live…Print…Save GREEN
If you’re concerned about the environment like we are, you’re searching for ways to reduce energy consumption, reduce air pollution, reduce waste, and be more “green.” Here at RISO, we call this effort “Live…Print…Save GREEN.”
EPEAT
EPEAT® is the global rating system for greener electronics.
RISO,Inc. continues to work closely with our business partners in order to evaluate and improve our products and services and to provide our customers with greener imaging equipment. We are offering “EPEAT-registered” imaging devices and creating a greener partnership with our customers in the U.S.A
EPEAT stands for the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, it ranks products on 51 specific criteria, to help identify greener imaging equipment and other electronics devices. The EPEAT tool is comprehensive, being based on IEEE 1680 International Standards, and the program includes energy efficiency, reduction/elimination of environmentally sensitive substances, take-back programs for equipment, packaging and consumables, and other important environmental attributes.
RISO: A Green Company
RISO is known throughout the world as a green company. Year after year in surveys of North American office equipment dealers, RISO, Inc. is consistently ranked as one of the “most green” office products companies.
RISO is ISO 14001 certified. ISO 14001 certification is an international specification for an environmental management system. RKC has reduced its CO2 emissions, reduced its discarded waste, and buys materials only from ISO 14001-certified suppliers. In addition, RISO meets all RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive) standards. The RoHS Directive restricts certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment in the EU market.
Energy Savings
RISO is proud to say that all of their inkjet printers and digital duplicators are ENERGY STAR certified. RISO digital duplicators use 95% less energy than photocopiers, and their current digital duplicator models use 75% less power than models from a decade ago. (In fact, we even had a RISO running off of the power generated by an exercise bike!
RISO’s many design improvements tie in directly with these overall savings, by improving efficiency in a number of small ways that add up to substantial benefits. For example, RISO products are energy sippers, requiring only standard 110V power to operate, instead of the dedicated 220V circuit most copier systems need. They have a variety of power-saving settings, so they consume even less when they’re not being used. And their high speed processes your jobs faster and more efficiently, which means that even when they’re running, they’re not running as long.
RISO Environmental Protection Principles
- Development of environment-friendly products
When developing and designing products, we create and execute development policies that reduce total environmental burden by considering the influence that respective product life stages have on the environment in the manufacturing, logistics, use, recycling and disposal phases. - Resource and energy saving
We investigate the influence exerted on the environment by our business activities and try to save resources and energy to reduce environmental burdens. - Local environmental protection
We observe local environmental regulations and investigate possible risks of contamination to prevent such occurrence in the case of an emergency, such as leakage. - Global arrangement
We also consider our influence on overseas local communities and environments when operating or exporting products, and we try to respond to the requests of local communities as faithfully as possible. - Continual improvement
We maintain a dynamic organization and system to establish environmental objectives and targets and always work to improve such systems. - Environmental education and information disclosure
We educate our employees and carry out publicity activities appropriately, in accordance with the “RISO Environmental Charter” and the principles detailed above, to help employees deepen their insight on environmental issues.