Brother printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Brother HL-L2420DW
30 ppm mono printer.
Speed
30
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.37
18.2 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 30 pages a minute, the HL-L2420DW is faster than 67 of the 305 office printers certified, and 234 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 18.2 kWh a year is in line with the median of 15 monochrome office printers within 20% of its speed (18.2 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a printer costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- Brother
- Model
- HL-L2420DW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 30 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 18.2 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Oct 2023
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 31 Mar 2023
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2452924, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
Other makers
Machines comparable to the HL-L2420DW
Certified office printers from other makers, same color class, within 20% of its speed.
| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP LaserJet M209dwe | Mono · Laser / LED | 30 ppm | 11 | Apr 2021 |
| Canon imageCLASS LBP122dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 30 ppm | 11 | Nov 2022 |
| HP LaserJet M214dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 29 ppm | 14 | Mar 2026 |
| HP LaserJet M220dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 15 | Mar 2026 |
| HP LaserJet M207dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 28 ppm | - | Mar 2024 |
| Ricoh P 311 | Mono · Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 21 | Sep 2021 |
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More Brother office printers
| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HL-JF1 | Color · Inkjet | 35 ppm | - | Sep 2022 |
| HL-L2325DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 15 | Sep 2020 |
| HL-L2370DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 18 | Nov 2021 |
| HL-L2400D | Mono · Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 18 | Mar 2023 |
| HL-L2865DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 21 | Mar 2023 |
| HL-L3220CDW | Color · Laser / LED | 19 ppm | 14 | Oct 2022 |
| HL-L3270CDW | Color · Laser / LED | 25 ppm | 24 | Oct 2019 |
| HL-L3280CDW | Color · Laser / LED | 27 ppm | 20 | Oct 2022 |