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Canon printer, ENERGY STAR certified

Canon Color imageCLASS X LBP1538C II

40 ppm color printer.

Speed

40

pages a minute

Color

Color

Laser / LED

Electricity a year

$2.57

19.8 kWh at 13¢/kWh

Duplex

Yes

automatic two-sided

At 40 pages a minute, the Color imageCLASS X LBP1538C II is faster than 111 of the 305 office printers certified, and 184 are faster.

Its certified typical electricity use of 19.8 kWh a year is 15% below the median of 42 color office printers within 20% of its speed (23.1 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a printer costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.

Maker
Canon
Model
Color imageCLASS X LBP1538C II
ENERGY STAR type
Printers
Marking technology
Laser / LED
Color
Color
Speed
40 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
Mar 2024
ENERGY STAR certified
12 Sep 2023

Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3417753, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.

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