Staplex Staples

It comes down to what you're fastening rather than how many sheets. Standard staples are built for typical paper stacks and everyday office stapling. The thick wire RLD type uses noticeably heavier high-carbon steel construction specifically for tougher materials like padded mailers and clamshell packaging, which standard staple wire isn't built to penetrate cleanly. If you're stapling routine paper documents, standard staples are the right choice and the more economical one. If you're securing heavier packaging materials that a standard staple would bend or fail to clinch through, the RLD type is worth the difference.

It depends on which leg length you're using, and the range is wider than people expect. A standard short-leg staple typically handles around 20 to 25 sheets of standard paper reliably. A long-leg style rated for higher capacity can handle 16 to 40 sheets depending on the specific type. Pushing a stack beyond what a given staple length is rated for usually results in an incomplete clinch that doesn't hold securely, rather than the staple simply failing outright, which can be a subtle problem that only shows up later when the packet falls apart. If your typical stack regularly runs thick, it's worth comparing your current machine against heavy-duty staplers built for higher sheet counts rather than pushing a lighter stapler past its rating.

Stick with genuine Staplex staples for these machines rather than assuming a generic equivalent will work the same. Electric stapling mechanisms are precisely tuned to the wire gauge and leg dimensions of the staples they're built for, and a generic staple with slightly different wire dimensions can cause jams that put real stress on the internal mechanism over time, not just an occasional misfire. If you're weighing cost against reliability, genuine staples matched to your exact model are the safer long-term choice over substituting anything else.

A chisel point is sharpened at an angle rather than left flat, which lets the staple penetrate cleanly through a stack of paper instead of pushing through it, and that difference genuinely reduces jamming, especially at higher stapling speeds or thicker stacks. A flat or dull point is more likely to catch, bend, or misfire as it tries to force through multiple sheets, which is the kind of small mechanical detail that adds up over thousands of stapling cycles in a high-volume office or mailroom setting. It's worth checking chisel-point availability against your stack thickness when browsing staples more broadly, since not every leg length and point style is offered across every brand.