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Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified

Brother MFC-L8970CDW

33 ppm color copier.

Speed

33

pages a minute

Color

Color

Laser / LED

Electricity a year

$2.91

22.4 kWh at 13¢/kWh

Duplex

Yes

automatic two-sided

At 33 pages a minute, the MFC-L8970CDW is faster than 444 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 659 are faster.

Its certified typical electricity use of 22.4 kWh a year is 10% above the median of 101 color copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (20.3 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-L8970CDW
ENERGY STAR type
Multifunction Devices (MFD)
Marking technology
Laser / LED
Color
Color
Speed
33 pages a minute
Size format
Standard
Automatic duplex
Yes
Typical electricity use
22.4 kWh a year (TEC method)
Default delay to sleep
1 min
On the market since
Nov 2025
ENERGY STAR certified
11 Apr 2025

Certified under the same record

The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: MFC-EX575, MFC-L8730CDW, MFC-L8930CDW.

Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 4012738, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.

Other makers

Machines comparable to the MFC-L8970CDW

Certified copiers and MFPs from other makers, same color class, within 20% of its speed.

ModelTypeSpeedkWh / yrCertified
Konica Minolta bizhub C3120iColor, Laser / LED33 ppm21Mar 2022
Fujifilm Apeos C325 zColor, Laser / LED33 ppm21Mar 2023
Fujifilm Apeos C325 dwColor, Laser / LED33 ppm21Mar 2023
Toshiba e-STUDIO331ACColor, Laser / LED33 ppm20Jul 2025
Kyocera 308ciColor, Laser / LED32 ppm23Jul 2019
Ricoh IM C320FColor, Laser / LED32 ppm15Dec 2023

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