The Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies recently assessed the EFI Nozomi C18000 LED inkjet corrugated printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. according to the ISO 20690 energy standard and determined it to be the leading single-pass corrugated production device in terms of power consumption efficiency.

ISO 20690, a new standard based on a Fogra research project, guides how to measure electricity use in small- and wide-format digital presses printing in different modes of operation. It provides a means to compare energy efficiency according to the two extremes of machine configuration characteristics: Best Quality (slowest) and Best Productivity (fastest) production modes.

“For most print service providers, electrical energy is the largest and most expensive type of energy,” said Dr. Andreas Kraushaar, the head of Fogra’s prepress department. “The new ISO 20690 provides, for the first time, a vendor-neutral definition of printed output per square meter per kilowatt hour to help print professionals make informed buying decisions. Based on the datasets in this category, the energy efficiency of the Nozomi C18000 can be attributed as the top in its class.”

“The industry has already seen the real energy efficiency of EFI’s LED technologies with previous Fogra research showing up to 82% less energy usage on EFI VUTEk superwide-format LED printers compared with mercury arc lamp UV curing,” added José Luis Ramón Moreno, VP and GM, EFI Industrial Printing. “For the Nozomi C18000 printer, the use of our energy-efficient and highly stable LED curing technology brings some of this same important advantage to single-pass printing. The printer’s efficiency based on ISO 20690 is yet another distinct competitive advantage packaging converters and corrugated display businesses gain with the industry’s only single-pass, LED-cured corrugated solution and odorless EFI LED inks that deliver an extremely wide color gamut.”