Canon printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Canon imageCLASS LBP246dw II
42 ppm mono printer.
Speed
42
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.16
16.6 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 42 pages a minute, the imageCLASS LBP246dw II is faster than 123 of the 305 office printers certified, and 157 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 16.6 kWh a year is 34% below the median of 66 monochrome office printers within 20% of its speed (25.2 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 LBP246dw II
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 42 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 16.6 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Sep 2025
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 18 Jul 2025
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 4497697, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
Other makers
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| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konica Minolta bizhub 4000i | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 29 | Aug 2019 |
| Brother HL-L5000D | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 27 | Aug 2019 |
| Kyocera P2040dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 25 | Jul 2016 |
| Lexmark MS431dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 23 | Oct 2019 |
| HP Laser 408dn | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 31 | Dec 2019 |
| Pantum BP5100DN | Mono · Laser / LED | 42 ppm | 28 | Nov 2020 |
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