Canon printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Canon imageCLASS LBP172dw
35 ppm mono printer.
Speed
35
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$1.83
14.0 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 35 pages a minute, the imageCLASS LBP172dw is faster than 84 of the 305 office printers certified, and 204 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 14.0 kWh a year is 34% below the median of 39 monochrome office printers within 20% of its speed (21.3 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
- imageCLASS LBP172dw
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 35 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 14.0 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Sep 2024
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 23 Sep 2024
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3629579, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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Certified office printers from other makers, same color class, within 20% of its speed.
| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pantum P3300D | Mono · Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 24 | Oct 2019 |
| HP LaserJet Pro 3001dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 16 | Feb 2023 |
| Pantum BP4200D | Mono · Laser / LED | 35 ppm | 23 | Aug 2024 |
| Ricoh P 311 | Mono · Laser / LED | 34 ppm | 21 | Sep 2021 |
| Xerox B230 | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 27 | Apr 2021 |
| Brother HL-L2370DW | Mono · Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 18 | Nov 2021 |
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