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Olympus Eco-Products : IC Recorder Voice-Trek DM-420/520, DM-450/550

It has High Quality Stereo Microphone and Linear PCM Recording capability, so that can record nonconventional high quality sound. Manage and edit audio files with the attached software "OLYMPUS Sonority". Also supported functions to make it easy-to-use are rich, such as Recording Scene Selection, Voice Guidance and so on. We reduce environmental load with low power consumption designing that is able to record for a long time and internal battery charge with nickel-hydrogen cell etc.

Major Features as Eco-Products

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Hazardous substances-free product
It does not use any materials prohibited by the Environment-related Substances Used in Product Control Rules. No polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used in the electrical insulation of interconnection.

Energy Efficiency
Compared with conventional products, recording timeNote1 of this product with stereo XQ mode is extended to 30 hours from 14 hours; increases by 114%.

Note1: Time to record by two nickel-hydrogen rechargeable batteries. (Based on Olympus test method.)

Resource saving
Compared with conventional products, it consumes about 7% less one's packed weight and 40% less one's packed volume, that also contribute less environmental burdens occurring during distribution.

Material Labeling
Also to facilitate recycling, information about materials is shown on all plastic parts that are large enough to carry labels.

LCA ResultsNote2
Environmental burdens occurring during distribution account for more than 60% of all environmental burdens during the life of the product.

LCA Results

Note2: Calculated based on the criteria for Olympus IC recorder.

Position of Environmentally Conscious Products

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