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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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ModelTypeSpeedkWh / yrCertified
Kyocera P5026cdwColor · Laser / LED27 ppm16Apr 2016
Kyocera PA2600cxColor · Laser / LED27 ppm14Mar 2024
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HP Color LaserJet Pro M454dwColor · Laser / LED28 ppm20May 2019
Lexmark CS331dwColor · Laser / LED26 ppm15May 2019
Lexmark CS431dwColor · Laser / LED26 ppm18Dec 2019

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