Sharp printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Sharp BP-B550PW
50 ppm mono printer.
Speed
50
pages a minute
Color
Mono
Laser / LED
Electricity a year
$3.85
29.6 kWh at 13¢/kWh
Duplex
Yes
automatic two-sided
At 50 pages a minute, the BP-B550PW is faster than 174 of the 305 office printers certified, and 114 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 29.6 kWh a year is 8% above the median of 69 monochrome office printers within 20% of its speed (27.6 kWh). Electricity is a small part of what a printer costs to run; toner or ink per page is usually the larger one.
- Maker
- Sharp
- Model
- BP-B550PW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- Marking technology
- Laser / LED
- Color
- Monochrome
- Speed
- 50 pages a minute
- Size format
- Standard
- Automatic duplex
- Yes
- Typical electricity use
- 29.6 kWh a year (TEC method)
- Default delay to sleep
- 1 min
- On the market since
- Jan 2025
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 23 Oct 2024
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3706749, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konica Minolta bizhub 4702P | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 22 | Dec 2017 |
| Source Technologies ST9820 | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 32 | Sep 2019 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub 4700i | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 31 | Mar 2020 |
| Brother HL-L6210DWT | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 30 | Dec 2021 |
| Lexmark MS631dw | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 30 | Oct 2022 |
| Lexmark MS632dwe | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 31 | Oct 2022 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| BP-1200C | Color · Laser / LED | 120 ppm | - | Oct 2023 |
| BP-1200S | Color · Laser / LED | 120 ppm | - | Oct 2023 |
| BP-C131PW | Color · Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 17 | Jun 2024 |
| BP-C545PW | Color · Laser / LED | 45 ppm | 24 | Oct 2024 |
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| MX-B468P | Mono · Laser / LED | 46 ppm | 27 | Jan 2023 |
| MX-B557P | Mono · Laser / LED | 55 ppm | 36 | May 2020 |
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