Brother printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Brother HL-L3280CDW
27 ppm color printer.
Speed
27
pages a minute
Color
Color
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.57
19.8 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 27 pages a minute, the HL-L3280CDW is faster than 59 of the 305 office printers certified, and 242 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 19.8 kWh a year is 31% above the median of 25 color office printers within 20% of its speed (15.1 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-L3280CDW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Color
- Speed
- 27 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 19.8 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Nov 2023
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 20 Oct 2022
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2403362, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyocera P5026cdw | Color · Laser / LED | 27 ppm | 16 | Apr 2016 |
| Kyocera PA2600cx | Color · Laser / LED | 27 ppm | 14 | Mar 2024 |
| Kyocera PA2600cwx | Color · Laser / LED | 27 ppm | 14 | Mar 2024 |
| HP Color LaserJet Pro M454dw | Color · Laser / LED | 28 ppm | 20 | May 2019 |
| Lexmark CS331dw | Color · Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 15 | May 2019 |
| Lexmark CS431dw | Color · Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 18 | Dec 2019 |
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| 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-L2420DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 30 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 |