Fogra Testing Finds 82 Percent Energy Savings for EFI VUTEk LED Curing Printers

MUNICH, GERMANY—May 23, 2014—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 percent 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 percent 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 Energy Efficiency Project (“Energy efficiency of large and small format printing systems”) have demonstrated that users can save around €16,000 every year on power consumption, an important factor for businesses pricing up jobs on both rigid and flexible materials.