Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified
Xerox C255a
26 ppm color copier.
Speed
26
pages a minute
Color
Color
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$1.89
14.6 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 26 pages a minute, the C255a is faster than 317 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 767 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 14.6 kWh a year is 15% below the median of 95 color copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (17.2 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
- C255a
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Color
- Speed
- 26 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 14.6 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 15 min
- On the market since
- Jun 2026
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 2 Feb 2026
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: C245, Same as tested model without Fax.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 4654955, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexmark CX331adwe | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 17 | May 2019 |
| Epson WF-C879R | Color, Inkjet | 26 ppm | - | Oct 2019 |
| Lexmark CX431adw | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 19 | Dec 2019 |
| Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX C257iF | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 13 | Aug 2020 |
| Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX C3826i | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 16 | May 2021 |
| Ricoh M C240FW | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 17 | Jun 2021 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| AltaLink B8245 | Mono, Laser / LED | 45 ppm | 33 | Sep 2024 |
| AltaLink B8255 | Mono, Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 41 | Apr 2024 |
| AltaLink B8270 | Mono, Laser / LED | 72 ppm | 54 | Apr 2024 |
| AltaLink C8230 | Color, Laser / LED | 30 ppm | 20 | Sep 2024 |
| AltaLink C8235 | Color, Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 21 | Sep 2024 |
| AltaLink C8245 | Color, Laser / LED | 45 ppm | 31 | Sep 2024 |
| AltaLink C8255 | Color, Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 40 | Sep 2024 |
| AltaLink C8270 | Color, Laser / LED | 70 ppm | 52 | Apr 2024 |