Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f
29 ppm color copier, model number 3QA55A.
Speed
29
pages a minute
Color
Color
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.57
19.8 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 29 pages a minute, the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f is faster than 360 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 747 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 19.8 kWh a year is 12% above the median of 97 color copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (17.7 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a copier costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- HP
- Model
- HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f
- Model number
- 3QA55A
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Color
- Speed
- 29 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 19.8 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 0 min
- On the market since
- Feb 2021
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 10 Dec 2020
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E47528f, 3QA75A, Identical but sold through HP Managed Print Services business.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2373621, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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