Star Micronics label printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Star Micronics MCL2
10 ppm mono label printer.
Speed
10
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Direct thermal
Electricity a year
1.7 W
power in sleep; no annual figure certified
Duplex
No
automatic two-sided
At 10 pages a minute, the MCL2 is faster than 108 of the 438 label and receipt printers certified, and 316 are faster.
- Maker
- Star Micronics
- Model
- MCL2
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Direct thermal
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 10 pages a minute
- Size format
- Small
- Automatic duplex
- No
- Power in sleep
- 1.71 W
- Power in standby
- 0.21 W
- Default delay to sleep
- 0 min
- On the market since
- Jul 2025
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 7 Mar 2025
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3999556, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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|---|---|---|---|
| TSC Alpha-2R | Mono · Direct thermal | 10 ppm | Oct 2016 |
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