Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified
Sharp BP-51C31
31 ppm color copier.
Speed
31
pages a minute
Color
Color
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$2.16
16.6 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 31 pages a minute, the BP-51C31 is faster than 419 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 675 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 16.6 kWh a year is 11% below the median of 143 color copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (18.7 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a copier costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- Sharp
- Model
- BP-51C31
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Color
- Speed
- 31 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
- Oct 2025
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 4 Apr 2025
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 4008634, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricoh IM C300F | Color, Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 19 | Aug 2019 |
| Brother MFC-L3780CDW | Color, Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 24 | Oct 2022 |
| Brother MFC-J6975DW | Color, Inkjet | 31 ppm | - | Apr 2025 |
| Brother MFC-J6560DW | Color, Inkjet | 31 ppm | - | Apr 2025 |
| Kyocera 308ci | Color, Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 23 | Jul 2019 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub C300i | Color, Laser / LED | 30 ppm | 18 | Jan 2019 |
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| Model | Type | Speed | kWh / yr | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BP-1250M | Mono, Laser / LED | 125 ppm | - | Oct 2023 |
| BP-1360M | Mono, Laser / LED | 136 ppm | - | Oct 2023 |
| BP-50C26 | Color, Laser / LED | 26 ppm | 15 | Aug 2021 |
| BP-50C31 | Color, Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 18 | Aug 2021 |
| BP-50C36 | Color, Laser / LED | 36 ppm | 20 | Aug 2021 |
| BP-50C45 | Color, Laser / LED | 45 ppm | 26 | Aug 2021 |
| BP-50C55 | Color, Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 38 | Nov 2021 |
| BP-50C65 | Color, Laser / LED | 65 ppm | 45 | Nov 2021 |