Brother copier, ENERGY STAR certified
Brother HL-L2480DW
36 ppm mono copier.
Speed
36
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.84
21.8 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 36 pages a minute, the HL-L2480DW is faster than 529 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 557 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 21.8 kWh a year is in line with the median of 150 monochrome copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (21.3 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a copier costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- Brother
- Model
- HL-L2480DW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 36 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 21.8 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Oct 2023
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 31 Mar 2023
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: DCP-L2640DW, DCP-L2647DW.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2452919, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexmark MB2236adwe | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 28 | May 2019 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub 368e | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 26 | Sep 2017 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub 367 | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 27 | Apr 2015 |
| Konica Minolta, Muratec bizhub 360i | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 24 | Mar 2020 |
| Xerox B235 | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 28 | Apr 2021 |
| Sharp BP-50M36 | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 21 | Jan 2022 |
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| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HL-L2390DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 19 | Aug 2019 |
| MFC-J1010DW;MFC-J1012DW | Color · Inkjet | 30 ppm | - | Feb 2021 |
| MFC-J1170DW | Color · Inkjet | 30 ppm | - | Feb 2021 |
| MFC-J1205W | Color · Inkjet | 28 ppm | - | Nov 2020 |
| MFC-J1410DW | Color · Inkjet | 16 ppm | - | Dec 2024 |
| MFC-J1800DW | Color · Inkjet | 30 ppm | - | Feb 2023 |
| MFC-J4335DW | Color · Inkjet | 35 ppm | - | Oct 2020 |
| MFC-J4355DW | Color · Inkjet | 20 ppm | - | Mar 2025 |