Sharp BP-50M45

The Sharp BP-50M45 is the 45-ppm mono model in the BP-50 Essentials A3 family — same chassis as the BP-50C45 color sibling and the rest of the BP-50 line, with a 10.1-inch tilting touchscreen, 100-sheet RSPF, and 11x17 ledger output. Print speed is 45 pages per minute mono at 1200 x 1200 dpi, first copy out 4.5 seconds from platen and 6.7 seconds from the RSPF. Standard paper capacity is 650 sheets across one 550-sheet drawer plus a 100-sheet bypass, expandable to 6,300 sheets with split tandem drawers and the BP-LC10 large capacity cassette. The scanner is color/grayscale capable at 80 ipm even though the print engine is mono only. The touchscreen handles direct print from Office, scan-to-cloud (OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive), and Synappx Go mobile workflows standard. Finishing options include staple (BP-FN11), hole punch (MX-PN14B), saddle stitch (BP-FN14/FN16), and the BP-FD10 inner folding unit for tri-fold and z-fold. The thing buyers regret: same as the rest of the line — fax, PostScript 3, Wi-Fi, OCR, Compact PDF are option kits, not standard. Best fit: a department of 30-60 printing 8,000-15,000 pages a month, mono only, with heavy A3 demand and finishing requirement.