Sharp BP-70C36

The Sharp BP-70C36 is the mid-tier of the Advanced Series A3 color MFPs, built for workgroups of 15-40 people printing 4,000-10,000 pages per month. It prints and copies 36 ppm in both black and color, with first-page-out at 4.6 seconds black / 6.5 color from the platen — noticeably faster than the BP-70C31 below it. The 300-sheet single-pass DSPF scans at 280 ipm, and the 10.1" tilting touchscreen with retractable keyboard handles scan-to-Teams, scan-to-OneDrive, scan-to-Box, and Universal Print without optional kits. Standard 650-sheet capacity (550-sheet drawer plus 100-sheet bypass), expandable to 6,300 with optional split tandem and the 3,000-sheet LCC. Standard Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0/3.0, and 5 GHz Wi-Fi. WPA3 wireless and TLS 1.3 encryption come in the box, which is why most of our legal and healthcare customers pick this Sharp Advanced Series over the older MX line. The thing buyers regret: ordering this when a 31-ppm BP-70C31 would have done the job — at this volume the speed difference is real, but if you're under 3,000 pages a month, the C31 saves money up front.