The arrival of six 25,000 gallon tanks at the Xerox plant in Webster, New York will herald an era of more energy efficient digital printing. It is in preparation for the production of Ultra Low-Melt EA Toner, a breakthrough product that cuts overall power consumption of digital printing devices by 15 to 30%.

The most power-intensive process in printers and multifunction devices is fusing the toner or sealing it on the page, accounting for 50 to 80% of the total power used. With the development of the Ultra Low-Melt EA Toner, scientists at Xerox Research Centre of Canada aimed to save energy by lowering the fusing temperature. The new toner melts as much as 45 degrees Fahrenheit lower temperature than the EA toner now being used in current Xerox products, without compromising image quality or any other performance.

Scientists at Xerox initially developed the EA process and the Ultra Low-Melt EA Toner is their next generation product. Pages printed with EA toner use 40 to 50% less material than those printed with older style toner. In collaboration with colleagues at Fuji Xerox, scientists and engineers at Xerox designed and tested many polymers before discovering polyesters that could be combined with other toner ingredients such as color pigments and wax particles to form the Ultra Low-Melt EA Toner.

Tags: digital printing, toner, xerox

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