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Office printersENERGY STAR certified

Lexmark MS531dw

46 ppm mono printer.

Speed

46

pages a minute

Color

Mono

Laser / LED

Electricity a year

$3.45

26.5 kWh at 13¢/kWh

Duplex

Yes

automatic two-sided

At 46 pages a minute, the MS531dw is faster than 166 of the 305 office printers certified, and 135 are faster.

Its certified typical electricity use of 26.5 kWh a year is in line with the median of 69 monochrome office printers within 20% of its speed (27.0 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a printer costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.

Maker
Lexmark
Model
MS531dw
ENERGY STAR type
Printers
Marking technology
Laser / LED
Color
Monochrome
Speed
46 pages a minute
Size format
Standard
Automatic duplex
Yes
Typical electricity use
26.5 kWh a year (TEC method)
Default delay to sleep
15 min
On the market since
Oct 2025
ENERGY STAR certified
21 Oct 2022

Certified under the same record

The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: M3346, Same as tested model for BSD market.

Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2470721, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.

Other makers

Machines comparable to the MS531dw

Certified office printers from other makers, same color class, within 20% of its speed.

ModelTypeSpeedkWh / yrCertified
Konica Minolta bizhub 4402PMono, Laser / LED46 ppm29Dec 2017
Sharp MX-B468PMono, Laser / LED46 ppm27Jan 2023
Ricoh P 501Mono, Laser / LED45 ppm26Sep 2018
Ricoh P 502Mono, Laser / LED45 ppm26Sep 2018
Ricoh P 501TLMono, Laser / LED45 ppm26Aug 2019
HP LaserJet Enterprise M507xMono, Laser / LED45 ppm22Sep 2019

Lexmark

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