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Panasonic have developed an entirely new way of fusing the toner onto the paper. This technology was initially developed for use in a cooker, using induction heating to offer rapid warm up and a very even cooking temperature. Panasonic has taken the technology to the next level by incorporating it into the Panasonic Colour MFPs.
The advantages are clear, by using IH technology the machines are able to warm up in just 15 seconds. Compare this to the Canon iRC2620N which takes 6 minutes or 360 seconds. With the Panasonic you could have made 120 colour prints before the Canon iRC2620N was ready to make a single print. The other advantages are that the very even temperature distribution across the fusing area means an exceptional print quality. The unique ability to accurately control fusing temperature also means that different media types can be handled with ease. The end user can select card of up to 220gsm weight via the by-pass tray and the machine will increase the fusing temperature to ensure that the toner is correctly fused. Similarly if the user chooses to copy on thin paper or transparency the temperature is reduced.

The advantages are clear, by using IH technology the machines are able to warm up in just 15 seconds. Compare this to the Canon iRC2620N which takes 6 minutes or 360 seconds. With the Panasonic you could have made 120 colour prints before the Canon iRC2620N was ready to make a single print. The other advantages are that the very even temperature distribution across the fusing area means an exceptional print quality. The unique ability to accurately control fusing temperature also means that different media types can be handled with ease. The end user can select card of up to 220gsm weight via the by-pass tray and the machine will increase the fusing temperature to ensure that the toner is correctly fused. Similarly if the user chooses to copy on thin paper or transparency the temperature is reduced.

Polymerised Toner Technology

The Panasonic Colour MFPs use a new type of toner technology called Polymerised toner. This is produced by a chemical reaction bonding together emulsifying resin particles, pigment particles and wax particles. The toner that results from this process gives a very even image quality because no oil is needed in the fusing area as the wax particles take care of dispersion. The advantage is that you can write on the print with a ball point pen and the image quality can be very precisely controlled to give the optimum in quality output.

The IH technology brings other benefits beyond rapid warm up time. The fusing roller is heated very rapidly when the print is needed. But unlike competitors products which use a great deal of power even when on standby the roller is only heated when a print is needed.

Fits into your environment

The fuser also cools rapidly as well. This means that the machine doesn’t need to run fans to remain cool in standby mode and even when a print has been made they quickly return to near silent standby mode. By using charge rollers rather than corona wires we have also managed to completely eliminate ozone emissions.

Reduced CO2 production

The amount of energy taken to produce the electricity to power the machine has an impact on the environment. In the case of Panasonic Colour MFPs operating for 2 hours a day and on energy save mode for 8 hours, used for 5 working days a week for 3 years the total power usage would be 2,448KWh over the period. The amount of CO2 produced to generate that power would be 1,052Kg. Competitive models such as the KonicaMinolta BizHub350 would produce 1,328Kg whilst the Canon IRC2620N would generate 2,250Kg.