Xerox copier, ENERGY STAR certified
Xerox AltaLink C8255
55 ppm color copier.
Speed
55
pages a minute
Color
Color
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$5.14
39.5 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 55 pages a minute, the AltaLink C8255 is faster than 770 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 281 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 39.5 kWh a year is 9% above the median of 128 color copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (36.4 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a copier costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- Xerox
- Model
- AltaLink C8255
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Color
- Speed
- 55 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 39.5 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Aug 2024
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 20 Sep 2024
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3629823, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP PageWide Pro 477dw MFP | Color · Production inkjet | 55 ppm | 34 | Jun 2019 |
| HP PageWide Pro MFP 774dns | Color · Production inkjet | 55 ppm | 24 | Jul 2019 |
| Lexmark CX825dtfe | Color · Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 45 | Sep 2019 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub C558 | Color · Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 45 | Jun 2016 |
| Muratec MFX-C5595i | Color · Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 40 | Feb 2020 |
| Ricoh IM C530FB | Color · Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 40 | Feb 2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| AltaLink B8245 | Mono · Laser / LED | 45 ppm | 33 | Sep 2024 |
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| AltaLink C8270 | Color · Laser / LED | 70 ppm | 52 | Apr 2024 |
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