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Fogra Testing Proves 82 Percent Energy Savings, Boosting Green Benefits of EFI’s VUTEk LED Printers

Compared with devices that use conventional mercury arc lamps

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Energy assessments carried out by Fogra have confirmed that EFI’s VUTEk wide-format printers with LED curing show energy reductions of up to 82% when compared with devices that use conventional mercury arc lamps.   Even in print-ready mode, the company’s LX printers with “cool curing” LEDs are now shown to save up to 77% in electricity usage, simply because the LEDs are off, unlike mercury arc lamps that still consume power when the machine is idle between jobs.   The calculations of Fogra’s...

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