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TCO Displays 5
Congratulations!
This display is designed for both you and the planet!
The display you have just purchased carries the TCO
Certi
Þ
ed label. This ensures that your display is designed,
manufactured and tested according to some of the strictest
quality and environmental requirements in the world.
This makes for a high performance product, designed with
the user in focus that also minimizes the impact on the
climate and our natural environment.
TCO Certi
Þ
ed is a third party veri
Þ
ed program, where every product model is tested by an
accredited impartial test laboratory. TCO Certi
Þ
ed represents one of the toughest certi
Þ
cations
for displays worldwide.
Some of the Usability features of the TCO Certifi ed for displays:
• Good visual ergonomics and image quality is tested to ensure top performance and reduce
sight and strain problems. Important parameters are luminance, contrast, resolution, black level,
gamma curve, color and luminance uniformity, color rendition and image stability.
• Product have been tested according to rigorous safety standards at an impartial laboratory.
• Electric and magnetic
Þ
elds emissions as low as normal household background levels.
• Low acoustic noise emissions.
Some of the Environmental features of the TCO Certifi ed for displays:
• The brand owner demonstrates corporate social responsibility and has a certi
Þ
ed
environmental management system (EMAS or ISO 14001).
• Very low energy consumption both in on- and standby mode minimize climate impact.
• Restrictions on chlorinated and brominated
ß
ame retardants, plasticizers, plastics and
heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury and lead (RoHS compliance).
• Both product and product packaging is prepared for recycling.
• The brand owner offers take-back options.
The requirements can be downloaded from our web site. The requirements included in this
label have been developed by TCO Development in co-operation with scientists, experts,
users as well as manufacturers all over the world. Since the end of the 1980s TCO has been
involved in in
ß
uencing the development of IT equipment in a more user-friendly direction.
Our labeling system started with displays in 1992 and is now requested by users and IT-
manufacturers all over the world. About 50% of all displays worldwide are TCO certi
Þ
ed.
For more information, please visit
www.tcodevelopment.com