China issues national standard for green product assessment of printers, multifunction devices 
On Aug. 23, 2024, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation published a recommended national standard titled “Green Product Assessment—Printers and Multifunction Devices”, which will come into effect March 1, 2025.
The standard is used for the green product assessment of printers and multifunction devices (i.e., all-in-one printers). It sets requirements for these products as green products, including criteria for hazardous substance content, recyclability rates, and the percentage or amount of recycled plastic in products.
Scope of the standard
The standard applies to the following printers and multifunction devices that support standard paper sizes: laser printers, inkjet printers, serial impact dot matrix printers, thermal printers and digital multifunction devices whose core function is printing. The standard can be used for other types of printers as a reference.
Requirements for hazardous substance content
Green products must meet the hazardous substance content criteria listed in the table below.
| Category | Metric | Criterion | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment | Touchable plastic on the outside of the product or its components, or homogeneous plastic with a mass of 5 g or more inside the product | Hexabromocyclododecane | ≤ 100 mg/kg | ||
| Short-chain chlorinated paraffins | ≤ 1,000 mg/kg | ||||
| Benzene emission | ≤ 0.05 mg/h | ||||
| TVOC emission | During operation | Monochrome printing | ≤ 10 mg/h | ||
| Color printing | ≤ 18 mg/h | ||||
| In stand-by mode | Capacity > 0.25 m3 | ≤ 2.0 mg/h | |||
| Capacity ≤ 0.25 m3 | ≤ 1.0 mg/h | ||||
| Hazardous substance content in packaging | Total concentration of cadmium, lead, mercury and hexavalent chromium | ≤ 100 mg/kg | |||
Requirements for recyclability rates and recycled plastic percentage/amount
The standard sets criteria for the recyclability rates of products and for the percentage or amount of recycled plastic in products as shown in the table below.
| Metric | Criterion | |
|---|---|---|
| Green models | Green products | |
| Recyclability rate of the product | ≥ 80% | ≥ 72% |
| Percentage or amount of post-consumer recycled plastic in the product | ≥ 2％, or 5 g or more in each plastic component with a mass of 50 g or more | Submit a self-declaration statement. |
The national standard (in Chinese) is available at
https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=B8C30E9DB4662FF7E14F6C0E05A0CACC
