Instruction manual

Sharp MX-3501N
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Color at Work
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Paper Output/Finishing
great for offices which desire these
features but lack the space.
The saddle stitch finishing options can do
everything the internal finisher can do and
more. With the saddle stitch finisher users
can stack up to 1,000 sheets of paper at a
time. A hole-punch option is also available
with this finishing model putting the
versatility across the board.
The saddle-stitch capacity of the finisher is
limited to 10 sheets, which means that
booklets up to 40 pages in length can be
created. Some competing units can fold
and staple up to 15 sheets to create
booklets 60 pages in length. However, 40
pages should be more than adequate for
most offices.
As the charts illustrate, the effect on
productivity of the two finishers is very
different. The hole punch on the internal
finisher causes the paper path to stop for
every sheet which is punched in turn. The
hole punch finishing feature added a
considerable amount of time to the overall
job. The stapling feature, which only
interacts at the end of each document set,
added virtually nothing to the overall time.
While we did not have access to the
external hole punch unit on the Sharp
products we tested, we would expect the
hole punch time to be much closer to the
unfinished time due to the design of the
floor standing unit which places the hole
punch in the paper path of the device
allowing it to punch each page without
interrupting the flow.
Paper feeding from multiple trays had a
considerable effect on the Sharp MX-
3501N. We ran a 50-page document using
the large capacity tray. We then repeated
the job using the bypass tray for both
covers, and tray 1 for sheets 10, 20, 30
and 40. The engine speed slowed by 31
percent. The exact drop will be dependent
upon the nature of each job.
Internal Finisher
Internal finisher productivity measured on the
sister MX-2700N.