Original toner of KYOCERA: innovations in parts

Thanks to rapid development of technologies, the market is filled with various component parts and supplies from different producers. Each company defines ideal price relation and qualities individually, depending on the financial opportunities and awareness on all range of the latest office equipment. And often only in the course of work it becomes clear that goods even from eminent producers can be insufficiently qualitative for implementation of necessary tasks. At combination of the office equipment of different brands, it is necessary to make additional efforts and to spend time for search of "compatible" consumables.

The Japanese corporation KYOCERA and its division KYOCERA Document Solutions scrupulously keep track of quality of the made equipment and supplies.

The concept of ECOSYS, link of products of KYOCERA Document Solutions, is offered quarter of the century back by the founder of corporation — Kazuo Inamori. It is based on three ideas: ECOnomy (Economy), ECOlogy (Ecology) and SYStem (Systemacity). The idea of economy provides use in production of the best technical solutions allowing to minimize costs on operation of the office equipment. Work goes on reduction in cost of devices, reduction of its energy consumption, increase in wear resistance of component parts and optimization of the price of supplies and service.

The principle of environmental friendliness in the concept of ECOSYS also demands from engineers of KYOCERA Document Solutions of development of the reliable solutions safe for the environment and human health. The systemacity of a development approach of the office equipment is based on the idea of uniform high quality of all range of products. Any equipment, component parts, expansion units and consumables created by KYOCERA Document Solutions within the concept of ECOSYS provide reliability, compatibility and expansibility of functions.

Successful entry of the company into the world market, certainly, is connected with this technology concept. It channelized development to new lines of the office equipment and supplies. The KYOCERA corporation began work in 1959 and as of 2018 consists of 208 divisions which are presented practically at all markets of hi-tech products. The company makes not only consumer goods, but also components of the complex electronic systems. Among divisions of KYOCERA the KYOCERA Document Solutions company is selected. More than 20 years she is engaged in production and sale of the printing office equipment and supplies.

The ideas of ECOSYS work as at basic level of components and supplies, and in big scales: complexes of office document flow, MFP network, printers and typographical systems. The embodiment of the ideas of ECOSYS can be shown even on the example of creation of a toner for printers and the MFP. The traditional production technology of a toner, powdery color or black substance (with a particle size in several micron) assumes crushing of polymeric material. The first samples of toners differed in rather large "grain" (more than 50 microns) and very sharp edges of chips. It had negative effect on quality and detailing of printing. Because of uneven edges the toner too quickly abraded elements of a printed board assembly of the printer.

The toner particle, in addition to a polymeric basis, includes some more components which are responsible for final properties of substance. It and organic acids, azoic dyes, quarternary salts and nigrozinovy dyes which give to a particle a charge (negative or positive). Iron oxide — magnetic properties depend on it. Surface additives and modifiers — are responsible for the flowability of a toner and guarantee fixing of powder on paper when heating. Chromaticity to a toner is given by pigmental dyes.

For monochrome printers and the MFP where the black toner is used, as a pigment soot or oxide of iron is used. For the color models requiring toners of the CMYK color space for work (in addition to black - purple, blue and yellow) – special organic paint.

But there are some more important properties which the toner under the terms of technology of a laser printing should have. It should be dielektrizovanny, but it is good to be electrified in the course of hashing. It is necessary to give a toner directly to a photodrum using the showing shaft. The shaft in different models of printers and MFP can be covered with dielectric, and the toner is kept by an electrostatic attraction. Other kind of construction – a magnetic shaft which holds on itself(himself) a toner due to magnetic properties of substance or the special carrier added to a toner. Also, the toner should have rather low melting temperature, being well pressed in in structure of paper at printing.

At all evidence of a production method of a toner, it is always possible how to reduce the price of a ready-made product, using low technologies, for example, and to increase its quality. It is obvious that application in a toner of low-quality polymers, additives and modifiers and also dyes will harmful affect human health, working with documents. The toner created with ignoring of environmental standards can become the reason of asthma, irritation of mucous membranes of an eye and other diseases. If to speak about an economic component, then because of low-quality components of a toner there is an electric power overexpenditure. At increase in a melting point of polymer operation of the printer or MFP goes in the mode of an accelerated wear.

By production of an original toner of KYOCERA within the concept of ECOSYS the profitability, environmental friendliness and systemacity, thanks to corporate technologies is provided. For example, technology of chemical cultivation of particles of a toner of KYOCERA allow to make them less and more smooth in a form. Advantages of particles of the toner reduced in comparison about standard 5-30 microns: improvement of detailing and reduction of melting temperature. The toner of KYOCERA forms on paper a layer only 3 microns, and it allows paint to lay down on the surface of material most exactly, reduces diffusion optical dispersion and improves the clearness and contrast of the image.

Smaller melting temperature of a toner of KYOCERA allows to optimize the cooling system and also to save the printing node of the office equipment from excessive loading. Engineers of KYOCERA Document Solutions managed to reduce electricity consumption costs at printing to 45-70 percent.

Under each printing device the own toner which on this device is perfectly baked at the set temperature is developed. It prevents an excessive consumption of powder of a toner and, respectively, saves money of the company. And thanks to a hermetic container in which there is a powder emptying of excess particles of a toner and its hit in airspace is completely prevented. Health of staff of the company – is invaluable!

All components of original toners of KYOCERA are developed in full accordance with the most tough international ecological regulations and undergo multilevel testing in KYOCERA Document Solutions laboratories. The principle of systemacity of the concept of ECOSYS allows to say that the toner becomes an integral part of the printer or MFP, a component of all printing process.

Using the concept of ECOSYS, engineers of the Japanese corporation managed to create the unique printing node. It consists of separately located photodrum from amorphous silicon, a tuba with a toner and the special bunker for collecting of the fulfilled dye. Advantages of development consist in lack of difficult construction of a cartridge, and it considerably reduces the cost of operation of the equipment and the price of supplies. Also, smaller quantity of parts which need to be replaced in process of a toner expense strongly affect the cost, safety of utilization and simplicity of service of the equipment. KYOCERA so calculates the amount and quality of a raskhodnik, selling a toner in simpler for production replaceable tubas instead of cartridges that price relation and efficiency was the most competitive.

Thanks to the culture of production, implementation of the innovative technologies and strict observance of environmental standards, the original toner of KYOCERA at the price below analogs from other producers and is only a little more expensive, than the refilled cartridges. However, printing quality, security, ease of use — at very high level. For example, tubas with a toner of KYOCERA which are issued for the ECOSYS office equipment in process of working off demand replacement and utilization of only 4-5 parts in difference from modern a toner cartridge with replacement of 50-60 parts. In general, the original toner of KYOCERA in comparison with analogs shows twice big resource efficiency in terms of quality, volume, simplicity of installation and service.

The KYOCERA Document Solutions company values trust of people and continues to develop and create the innovation products on the basis of the concept of ECOSYS.