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What Does Pages Per Minute Mean?

Pages per minute (PPM) is a printer speed measurement standard. PPM varies between printer type.

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Techopedia Explains Pages Per Minute

The International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electromechanical Commission (IEC) published ISO/IEC 24734, which provides a standard for measuring digital printing device productivity, regardless of printer type. This standard allows for the comparison of machines with identical modes operating with varied applications within a system or over a network.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.