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Prepared for Brian R. | Delivered September 8, 2019
Printer Paper Capacities
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Goals
To understand the paper tray capacity of both consumer/personal printers and business/high volume printers.
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Early Findings
PERSONAL PRINTERS
According to a list of the top ten compact printers, paper capacity ranges from
10-60 sheets
.
Among TechRadar's list of the
top home printers
of 2019, 4 printers have a paper capacity of 100, three have a capacity of 500, two can hold 250 sheets, and one hold 150 sheets.
BUSINESS/HIGH VOLUME PRINTERS
TechRadar's list of the top small business printers indicates that paper tray capacity ranges from
250-550 sheets
, while one printer, the Xerox VersaLink C405 has a 550 sheet capacity with a multipurpose tray that holds another 150 sheets.
A list of the best multifunction office printers presents printers with paper capacities ranging from
500-3,100
, and several of the smaller capacity machines have expandable capacity with extra trays.
Some large, multifunction office printers, such as the Toshiba eStudio line, have paper capacities ranging from
300 to 6,020
with varying individual paper tray capacities. For example, the e-Studio 5516 and 7516 have a total paper capacity of 6,020 with
2,500-sheet
and 3,520-sheet capacity trays.
PRINTER PAPER PACKAGING
Most paper reams appear to hold
500 sheets
of paper.
Most
references
for paper quantities or units state that a ream is 500 sheets of paper, based on quires of 25 each.
Known as a "
short ream
," units of 480 sheets, based on quires of 24, used to be common, but appear to have fallen out of favor.
However, some
specialty papers
come in reams of 480.
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