330ppm (That's 330 pages per minute)

"IBM is stepping up its push into business publishing by launching what it calls the world's fastest printing system of its kind. The device, IBM said late Thursday, can churn out Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in less than a minute or print documents spanning the Empire State Building in less than 4 minutes. It starts at about $500,000 and the top-of-the-line version costs $1 million, said Robert Cooper, director of product printing for the Armonk, N.Y.-based company."

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