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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|---|---|---|---|---|
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