Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified
Brother MFC-L2820DW
34 ppm mono copier.
Speed
34
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.77
21.3 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 34 pages a minute, the MFC-L2820DW is faster than 450 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 654 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 21.3 kWh a year is in line with the median of 127 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
- MFC-L2820DW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 34 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 21.3 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: MFC-L2807DW, MFC-L2820DWXL.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2452920, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricoh M 320F | Mono, Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 22 | Sep 2021 |
| Ricoh 132 MF | Mono, Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 22 | Aug 2023 |
| Canon imageFORCE C331F | Mono, Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 18 | Jul 2025 |
| Canon imageFORCE C331FZ | Mono, Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 18 | Jul 2025 |
| Lanier MP 3555SP | Mono, Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 23 | Aug 2016 |
| Pantum M7100D | Mono, Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 25 | Nov 2019 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| HL-L2390DW | Mono, Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 19 | Aug 2019 |
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| MFC-J4335DW | Color, Inkjet | 35 ppm | - | Oct 2020 |