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Ricoh Group Sustainability Report 201469
The Ricoh Group is rolling out environmental impact reduction activities covering the lifecycle of
business processes, from procurement through recycling, with a view to reducing total lifecycle CO2
emissions by 30% by 2020 compared with the level in 2000. The stage of a product’s life where it
has a particularly large impact on the environment is when the product is in use at the customer site.
Given this reality, we develop products, especially core imaging equipment, with high energy-saving
features, and we also provide services and solutions that help customers shrink their environmental
footprint and support them in their efforts to reduce environmental impact.
The RICOH MP C6003/C5503/C4503/C3503/C3003
MFP series, released in June 2013, boasts fast recovery
from sleep mode, largely thanks to Ricoh’s original
energy-savingtechnologies—ColorQSU(QuickStart-
Up)*2 (DH xing system) and a low melting point
tonerColorPxP-EQ.Inaddition,withthedevelopment
of ASIC (application specic integrated circuits) that
can operate under low electric power, these printers
boast industry-leading*3 low energy consumption,
under 0.6W, in sleep mode.
The RICOH MP C3503/C3003 delivers a huge
improvement over previous models*4 with regard to
sleep mode, drawing just 0.5W of power, down 58%,
while connected to the network, and recovering in
amere5.1seconds,or2.7secondsfaster.These
models achieve incredibly high performance in
termsof user-friendliness and energy conservation.
Meanwhile, the RICOH MP C6003 exhibits high
productivity—60 sheets per minute for color prints
orblack-and-white, while maintaining low power
consumption of 0.6W, and easily clears even the
toughercriteriaofInternationalENERGYSTAR
Program Ver2.0, revised in January 2014.
Energy Conservation and Prevention of Global Warming
Well-regarded for both user-friendly and energy-
savingfeatures,thisseriesscoredtheEnergy
Conservation Center Chairman’s Award*5 in the
product and business model category at the 2013
Energy-SavingAwardsinJapan.
Develops stand-alone power source,
perfect for indoor lighting
The IoT (Internet of Things) society*6, linking various
things around us with communication capabilities to
networks, is coming. In this society, all sorts of things
will acquire sensing capabilities, and stand-alone
power source technology will become all the more
important to facilitate communication even in places
where power sources are difcult to maintain.
Ricoh successfully developed a complete solid-
state dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) that delivers
good power-generating performance even in weak
indoor lighting from such sources as light-emitting
diodes. Applying organic photoconductor technology
accumulated in the development of imaging equipment
andsupercriticaluidtechnology,wecreatedaDSSC
consisting only of solid state material, thereby over-
coming issues with safety and durability that plagued
previous candidates using liquid electrolytes. Our solar
cell demonstrates more than twice the electric output
of prevailing amorphous silicon solar cells, which are
currently well-regarded for high performance. Going
forward, we will promote further application of this
DSSC as a stand-alone power source that should be
able to contribute to a sustainable society. ➤ WEB1
• Comparison of environmental impact by lifecycle stages for RICOH MP C6003 SP and predecessor product
Debut of energy-saving top runners
that draw just 0.5W in sleep mode with
recovery in as little as 5.1 seconds*1
➤WEB1Complete Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
: www.ricoh.com/about/company/technology/tech/066_dssc.html
Total
imagio MP C6001 SP
RICOH MP C6003 SP
37 56
61
334
1,290
1,778
80 143
197
774
2,306
3,500
Material
procurement
Manufacturing Logistics Use Disposal
Greenhouse gas emissions/kg-CO2e
Calculation conditions: 35,840 sheets per
month; full-color ratio: 50%; ve-year service
life; packaging types: RICOH MP C6003 SP,
cardboard, imagio MP C6001 SP, resource-
recirculating eco packaging; site of production:
RICOH MP C6003 SP, China, imagio MP C6001
SP, Japan; country of sale: Japan, for both
products
平成 年度
省エネ大賞
（製品・ビジネスモデル部門）
主催：一般財団法人省エネルギーセンター
587mm
（奥行き685mm）
「RICOH MP C6003」
RICOH MP C6003 won the Energy Conservation Center Chairman’s Award in
the product and business model category at the 2013 Energy-Saving Awards in Japan.
*1 RICOH MP C3503
*2 QSU(QuickStart-Up):
A technology that quickly
“wakes” a multifunction printer
from energy-saving (sleep)
mode. Direct heating (DH) is the
newestcolorQSUtechnology
for heating the fusing roller
*3 RICOH MP C3302/C2802
*4 As of August 5, 2014;
Survey by Ricoh
*5 Sponsor:EnergyConservation
Center, Japan, with support
fromMinistryofEconomy,Trade
and Industry
*6 IoT (Internet of Things) society:
Society of the near future, where
all things will be equipped with
sensors and telecommunication
functions, and where big data
analysis of mass intelligence
emitted by sensors will be
conducted for harnessing