Epson stylus photo r200 printer's power consumption

I checked to see how much energy was being used by an Epson stylus photo r200 printer in our home. Not unusually, it was taking around 5.9W when turned on.

It also drew 0.3W when turned off.

If this printer is left plugged in and turned on, it will consume a constant 5.9W so it is important to at least turn it off, but better again to plug it out, or turn it off at the wall.

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• energy efficiency
• vampire power
• electricity
• phantom load
• vampire
• draw
• printer
• epson
• epson stylus photo r200
• r200

[RedMonkTV]

Thanks for your comment.

Home printers generally are used to print 1-2 pages per day on average. This takes usually less than a minute. For the other 23 hours 59 minutes of the day they are either in standby, or turned off.

I was a lot more interested in seeing what our printer's normal energy draw was, rather than its draw on the rare occasion that it is used to print.

[TheFucko]

It would be much more useful if you'd actually measure the power consumption while it's printing text documents and photos, so people who could possibly care about this (not those who print 1-2 pages/day) may estimate, say, how much would a photo cost or would it make sense to print an e-book (ink + paper + watts) or a printed book from a shop is cheaper and so on...

[TheFucko]

So, anyway, if you like shooting stuff and want it to be useful - think about those who's gonna watch it. No one's gonna like "empty" frames (like plugging off the cord in the end, it makes no sense to show it), useless comments (no one gives a damn why you use a 3pin plug, it's just trash info, literally garbage), and mumbling in a such uninformative video makes it even much worse (you could talk a bit faster). Sorry for bitching, I do sound pretty mean, but the video is really bad.

[TheFucko]

It's those who print a lot - tens or hundreds pages per day - they are interested in power consumption, it only matters for such active users! They google for answers, find such videos, and instead just watch THIS. I mean, showing the watt meter without the printer plugged in and saying "look, it consumes 0 Watts"... :D That's really pathetic. :(

[TheFucko]

You don't have to be an electrician to understand that there's nothing in printers that can draw any significant amounts of energy. What could possibly consume more than a couple of watts? It's completely idle, nothing moves, nothing's going on inside at all. Practically it's just a light on top of the power button..

People that print 1-2 pages per day have no interest in the power consumption, why the hell would they? :D

[TheFucko]

Lots of empty mumbling, and you didn't even tested the consumption when it actually does its job, print.. :( This could be a 1-1.5 min useful video, but instead it's an almost useless 3.5 min peace of crap. :)