Acer AL1701 User Manual

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Congratulations!You have just purchased a TCO'99 approved and labelled product!Your choice has provided you with a product developed forprofessional use. Your purchase has also contributed to reducing theburden on the environment and also to the further development ofenvironmentally adapted electronics products.Why do we have environmentally labelled computers?In many countries, environmental labelling has become an establishedmethod for encouraging the adaptation of goods and services to theenvironment. The main problem, as far as computers and otherelectronics equipment are concerned, is that environmentally harmfulsubstances are used both in the products and during their manufacture.Since it is not so far possible to satisfactorily recycle the majority ofelectronics equipment, most of these potentially damaging substancessooner or later enter nature.There are also other characteristics of a computer, such as energyconsumption levels, that are important from the viewpoints of both thework (internal) and natural (external) environments. Since all methodsof electricity generation have a negative effect on the environment(e.g. acidic and climate-influencing emissions, radioactive waste), it isvital to save energy. Electronics equipment in offices is often leftrunning continuously and thereby consumes a lot of energy.What does labelling involve?This product meets the requirements for the TCO'99 scheme, whichprovides for international and environmental labelling of personalPage1-2 stands forTCO’99 model only.Please see back labelfor model distinction.