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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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ModelTypeSpeedkWh / yrCertified
HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E82540zMono, Laser / LED40 ppm34Oct 2019
Lexmark MX331adnMono, Laser / LED40 ppm22Oct 2019
Ricoh IM 4000Mono, Laser / LED40 ppm23Jan 2021
Savin IM 4000Mono, Laser / LED40 ppm23Jan 2021
Lanier IM 4000Mono, Laser / LED40 ppm23Jan 2021
Ricoh IM 4000GMono, Laser / LED40 ppm23Jan 2021

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