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.
| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konica Minolta bizhub C3120i | Color, Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 21 | Mar 2022 |
| Fujifilm Apeos C325 z | Color, Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 21 | Mar 2023 |
| Fujifilm Apeos C325 dw | Color, Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 21 | Mar 2023 |
| Toshiba e-STUDIO331AC | Color, Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 20 | Jul 2025 |
| Kyocera 308ci | Color, Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 23 | Jul 2019 |
| Ricoh IM C320F | Color, Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 15 | Dec 2023 |
Brother
More Brother copiers and MFPs
| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HL-L2390DW | Mono, Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 19 | Aug 2019 |
| HL-L2480DW | Mono, Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 22 | Mar 2023 |
| 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 |