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Pantum PT18C1A-S3-01

26 ppm color printer.

Speed

26

pages a minute

Color

Color

Laser / LED

Electricity a year

$2.30

17.7 kWh at 13¢/kWh

Duplex

Yes

automatic two-sided

At 26 pages a minute, the PT18C1A-S3-01 is faster than 48 of the 305 office printers certified, and 246 are faster.

Its certified typical electricity use of 17.7 kWh a year is 17% above the median of 23 color office printers within 20% of its speed (15.1 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a printer costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.

Maker
Pantum
Model
PT18C1A-S3-01
ENERGY STAR type
Printers
Marking technology
Laser / LED
Color
Color
Speed
26 pages a minute
Size format
Standard
Automatic duplex
Yes
Typical electricity use
17.7 kWh a year (TEC method)
Default delay to sleep
1 min
On the market since
Dec 2025
ENERGY STAR certified
7 Jan 2026

Certified under the same record

The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: PT18C1A-S3A-01.

Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 4520262, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.

Other makers

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Lexmark CS331dwColor, Laser / LED26 ppm15May 2019
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Ricoh P C311WColor, Laser / LED26 ppm16Sep 2021
HP Color LaserJet Pro 3201dwColor, Laser / LED26 ppm14Jul 2023
Ricoh C125 PColor, Laser / LED26 ppm16Aug 2023

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