Sharp printer, ENERGY STAR certified
Sharp BP-C131PW
31 ppm color printer.
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-C131PW is faster than 71 of the 305 office printers certified, and 231 are faster.
Its certified typical electricity use of 16.6 kWh a year is 9% below the median of 39 color office printers within 20% of its speed (18.2 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-C131PW
- ENERGY STAR type
- Printers
- 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
- 11 min
- On the market since
- Dec 2024
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 14 Jun 2024
Source: ENERGY STAR certified imaging equipment dataset, US EPA, record 3543501, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brother HL-L3295CDW | Color · Laser / LED | 31 ppm | 23 | Oct 2022 |
| Ricoh P C375 | Color · Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 15 | Dec 2023 |
| Xerox C300 | Color · Laser / LED | 32 ppm | 18 | Feb 2026 |
| Brother HL-L9310CDW | Color · Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 30 | Aug 2019 |
| HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M455dn | Color · Laser / LED | 29 ppm | 23 | Dec 2020 |
| Konica Minolta bizhub C3100i | Color · Laser / LED | 33 ppm | 20 | Mar 2022 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| BP-B550PW | Mono · Laser / LED | 50 ppm | 30 | Oct 2024 |
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