TSC label printer, ENERGY STAR certified
TSC Alpha-2R
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 Alpha-2R is faster than 108 of the 438 label and receipt printers certified, and 316 are faster.
- Maker
- TSC
- Model
- Alpha-2R
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Direct thermal
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 10 pages a minute
- Size format
- Small
- Automatic duplex
- No
- Power in sleep
- 1.65 W
- Power in standby
- 0.12 W
- Default delay to sleep
- 0 min
- On the market since
- Oct 2016
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 24 Oct 2016
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: PR20, GR20, CN-20, BP-20, TSC-20.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2349625, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
Other makers
Machines comparable to the Alpha-2R
Certified label and receipt printers from other makers, same color class, within 20% of its speed.
| Model | Type | Speed | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDEX EZ100 | Mono · Thermal transfer | 10 ppm | Sep 2016 |
| GoDEX EZ520 | Mono · Thermal transfer | 10 ppm | Sep 2016 |
| GoDEX GE300 | Mono · Thermal transfer | 10 ppm | Oct 2018 |
| SATO CL4NX Plus | Mono · Direct thermal | 10 ppm | Jul 2021 |
| SATO CL6NX Plus | Mono · Direct thermal | 10 ppm | Jul 2021 |
| Star Micronics MCL2 | Mono · Direct thermal | 10 ppm | Mar 2025 |
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More TSC label and receipt printers
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4D520 | Thermal transfer | 360 ppm | Jan 2021 |
| 4D520P | Thermal transfer | 360 ppm | Aug 2021 |
| 4T520 | Thermal transfer | 360 ppm | Jan 2021 |
| 4T530P | Thermal transfer | 360 ppm | Jan 2022 |
| B-A2100 | Mono · Thermal transfer | 35 ppm | Oct 2020 |
| B-P200B | Thermal transfer | 480 ppm | Jun 2023 |
| B-P200LNHC | Direct thermal | 480 ppm | Jun 2025 |
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