Copiers and MFPsENERGY STAR certified
Sharp BP-B540WR
40 ppm mono copier.
Speed
40
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$3.31
25.5 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 40 pages a minute, the BP-B540WR is faster than 566 of the 1,109 copiers and MFPs certified, and 506 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 25.5 kWh a year is 7% above the median of 151 monochrome copiers and MFPs within 20% of its speed (23.9 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-B540WR
- ENERGY STAR type
- Multifunction Devices (MFD)
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 40 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 25.5 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Aug 2023
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 26 Apr 2023
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 2470829, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E82540z | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 34 | Oct 2019 |
| Lexmark MX331adn | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 22 | Oct 2019 |
| Ricoh IM 4000 | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 23 | Jan 2021 |
| Savin IM 4000 | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 23 | Jan 2021 |
| Lanier IM 4000 | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 23 | Jan 2021 |
| Ricoh IM 4000G | Mono, Laser / LED | 40 ppm | 23 | Jan 2021 |
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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 |