Division 37 Product speed — In general, for standard-size products, a single A4 or 8,5″ × 11″ sheet printed/copied/scanned on one side in a minute is equal to one image-per-minute (ipm). If the maximum claimed speeds differ when producing images on A4 or 8,5″ × 11″ paper, the higher of the two is used.

• For mailing machines, one piece of mail processed in a minute is equal to one mail-piece-per-minute (mppm).

• For small-format products, a single A6 or 4″ × 6″ sheet printed/copied/scanned on one side in a minute is equal to 0,25 ipm.

• For large-format products, a single A2 sheet is equivalent to 4 ipm and one A0 sheet is equivalent to 16 ipm.

• For continuous-form products categorised as small-format, large-format, or standard-size, print speed in ipm should be obtained from the product’s maximum marketed imaging speed in metres per minute according to the conversion below:

X ipm = 16 × [maximum media width (metres) × maximum imaging speed (length-metres/minute)].

In all cases, the converted speed in ipm should be rounded to the nearest integer (e.g. 14,4 ipm rounds to 14 ipm; 14,5 ipm rounds to 15 ipm).

For qualification purposes, manufacturers should report the speed of the product according to the prioritisation of functions outlined below:

• print speed, unless the product cannot perform the print function, in which case,

• copy speed, unless the product cannot perform the print or copy functions, in which case,

• scan speed.