Epson Philippines Corporation has announced its initiatives towards fulfilling the goal of reducing 90% CO2 emissions in its operations, as the company sets out to motivate its partners and consumers to also make a choice in protecting the environment.
The launch activity, done in cooperation with SM Supermalls, commenced with a photo exhibit featuring the Epson PRO, a group of distinguished photographers and graphic designers who expressed their concern for the environment through their art work. The photo exhibit entitled “The Choice to Change: Green Inspiring Blue”, showcases the Epson PRO vision of climate change to inspire everyone to act now. The photo exhibit will be showcased at SM Mall of Asia, SM North Edsa, SM Megamall, SM Cebu and SM Davao.
As a sales office, Epson Philippines has also launched the Epson Toner & Ink Cartridge Collection and Recycling Campaign, an expansion of internal efforts that the company has already undertaken in the past 3 years. The campaign sets to motivate Epson partners and consumers towards proper disposal of Epson ink cartridges to benefit the eco-system.
The launch of the Epson Toner & Ink Cartridge Collection and Recycling program will start off with the generous support of SM Malls. Recycling bins for Epson toner and ink cartridges will be situated in SM Cyberzones of select SM malls, so the end-users can conveniently drop off their used cartridges for proper disposal. A total of ten (10) drop-off locations will be announced this year.
To ensure that the collection will be sustainable and efficient, Epson Philippines is currently finalizing talks with its partners, distributors and retailers for additional drop-off and collection points. The recycling loop will be done in cooperation with Epson Precision Philippines, Inc. or EPPI, Epson’s manufacturing office located in Lipa City, Batangas.
Globally, Epson is the world’s first manufacturer to publicly declare its commitment to eliminate ozone-deleting CFCs in 1988. Since then, the company and all its subsidiaries all over the world have continued to apply compact, energy-saving, high-precision technologies to reduce environmental impacts and improve eco-performance in every stage of the product lifecycle—from design and manufacture through to transport, use and recycling.
This commitment to the environment was summarized in June 2008, when Epson officially announced its Environmental Vision 2050, which encourages everyone to share responsibility for reducing environmental impacts. The primary action that Epson has undertaken globally under its environmental policy is to reduce CO2 emissions by 90% across the lifecycle of all products and services by the year 2050. Also, as a member of the ecosystem, Epson has vowed to continue to work towards restoring and protecting biodiversity together with local communities.
Tired of having all your stuff out there in the cloud? Now HP says you can print it out to any printer you want with the HP ePrint Center. Cleverly mixing in something actually makes HP money (printer sales) with cloud computing, HP will sell you a “Web-connected printer” — signing up for their online service gets you the ability to print when you are away.
It’s unclear how many Web-connected printers people are expected to buy, if they will be strategically scattering them at various locations in their daily lives, or if some sort of underground “print clouds” will emerge with “public printers,” “private printers” and maybe even “hybrid printers.”
Rumor has it HP used its purchase of Palm and Palm’s webOS to power the printers, which, naturally, have “apps” and can do things like browse the Web. Grumpy IT pros may say this certainly does not look like a secure improvement over a network printer and they already knew how to email documents to their printers, since HP has made that possible for about 20 years.Google Cloud Print, however, hasn’t made it off the ground yet, despite being the exact same idea. That may have something to do with HP selling printers as well as software and services and Google not doing so, but we cannot be entirely sure.
Inkjet prints have been successfully de-inked in a procedure designed to replicate a typical European mixed-grade waste paper recycling system.According to the Digital Print De-inking Alliance (DPDA), a study conducted in France revealed that nearly all of the samples were de-inked in test conditions.Matthias Fromm, R&D manager for Océ Printing Systems, said the tests had been carried out using conditions that simulated the total paper recycling process for mixed grades of paper in a bid to understand the impact of inkjet printed papers in commercial recycling systems.
He added: “This research was conducted using 100% inkjet paper. We estimate that production inkjet’s market share of total graphic printing is less than 1% today.”Based on the projected growth rates of inkjet printing, we anticipate the de-inking industry is capable at current volumes and that we have a few more years to jointly develop the appropriate technologies of paper, ink and de-inking methods to ensure good de-inking performance if and when the need arises.”
On Friday 28th May Cartridge World Sudbury will showcase a shiny new road going replica British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) car.Racing fans and passers by are invited to come and see the car at Sudbury Town Hall, Sudbury town centre, at a special launch event from 10am – 3pm where the staff will be handing out balloons, sweets, and free ink refills.James Peck, manager said “This year we have gone one further and are offering a free ink refill with our voucher redeemable at Cartridge World Sudbury to celebrate. And what’s more, visitors will be offered a chance of winning their very own one-off Honda Civic Type R MUGEN Concept car through the Honda (UK) promotion and even have their photo taken by the car with our mascot Daemon Fill!!”For the second season running Cartridge World is continuing its involvement with BTCC motor sport and has teamed up with Honda (UK) and Team Dynamics to sponsor The Honda Racing Team for the new season, which snatched a top spot at Brands Hatch earlier this month.
James Peck, manager of Cartridge World Sudbury commented on the sponsorship: “We are excited about teaming up with Honda UK. This awesome partnership highlights the connection between two well-known brands. Both Cartridge World and Honda represent quality manufacturing, reliability and amazing value for money. We are proving ourselves both on the track and off with our products every time.”Celebrity racing driver Gordon “Flash” Shedden is representing Cartridge World once again. He is partnering with two-times BTCC champion Matt Neal – a reunion of the drivers who last competed together for Honda in 2007.Commenting on Cartridge World’s sponsorship, Gordon Shedden said, “Honda’s brand values of sustainability, reliability and quality match perfectly with Cartridge World, so even before the car has turned a wheel there’s a great common goal with both organisations.”
Both The Honda Racing Team and Team Dynamics look forward to meeting motor racing fans throughout the ten-event BTCC season, which runs through to 10th October. Fans can see the next round at Oulton Park, Cheshire on 6th June.For those who don’t yet know, Cartridge World is the leader in remanufacturing ink jet and laser ink cartridges using quality toner and inks. Why not come along to our special event, collect your voucher and try one of our refills for yourself?
FLOGGER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP seems to have figured out a novel way of extracting the maximum amount of money from punters who have been unfortunate enough to buy one of its printers.
Not content with overcharging for ink, the printer manufacturer apparently regionalises its print cartridges, as one user found out. The unfortunate soul in question, Michelle Sullivan, bought an HP Photosmart C7180 printer Down Under but found that when she moved to Malta she was unable to purchase compatible print cartridges.
The problem wasn’t due to anything as innocent as regional unavailability, but rather it was down to HP’s decision to create specific cartridges for different regions for the same printer.
The surprised and shocked Ms Sullivan went to great lengths to find out whether this apparent HP policy was actually true. After questioning the main dealer for HP in Malta, who told her that ink cartridges were regionalised, Sullivan then had a chat with a HP online support agent.
Unsurprisingly the response she received was less than helpful, with the agent suggesting that Sullivan try Bestbuy or Walmart, not realising that neither of these retailers has stores in Malta.
HP has in the past put some rather money-grubbing restrictions on its printing products. A number of its toner cartridges had page count chips that would stop the printer after a certain number of pages had been printed, regardless of whether there was still toner left in the cartridge. For the benefit of punters’ wallets and the environment, a cottage industry flogging ‘blank’ page counting chips successfully grew out of HP’s corporate greed.
This sorry saga has left Ms Sullivan with a six-month old printer that is effectively useless simply because she decided to move. If you’ve had similar issues with HP’s cartridge restrictions we’d love to hear them.At press time HP has yet to respond to our questions on this matter.