Bostitch Office EZ Squeeze 40 Sheet Flat Clinch Desktop Stapler, Reduced Effort, Black (B9040)

After close to 10 years of regular daily business use, my compact Swingline stapler broke. It was a great staple for most of what I needed and fit my hand well. But standard staplers round the staples which adds to the bulk of your paperwork and can affect postage when mailing documents if that staple bump is pronounced enough. So I decided I wanted to get a flat stapler. This stapler fit the bill, uses standard staples and supposedly can do up to 40 sheets. It has great reviews. The same stapler at Office Depot, Office Max, Staples, etc. was easily twice the cost. It looks bulky with that upper arm but the reviews were good on the ease of use. So after vacillating for a couple weeks I finally ordered it and it arrived promptly in two days (love Amazon Prime!!).I have to say this stapler is the bomb! It staples so easily and smoothly. Makes my old Swingline look so so bad. I stapled a couple pages together. The stapler operated effortlessly and the staple is so flat there is hardly any added bulk whatsoever. I stapled two envelopes together (essentially 4 pages). Effortlessly. I doubled the envelopes and stapled them (8 pages). Just as smooth as the first time. I doubled the envelopes again and stapled them (16 pages). Effortlessly. I doubled the envelopes one more time, essentially making it 32 pages, and stapled. Just as easily as 4 pages and just as flat. The standard staples I put in (same ones I put in my old Swingline) work great. I don't think standard staples can do much more than 32 pages because there is a little less than 1/8 inch of staple on the back side of the pages. So for more pages probably longer staples are needed. But our big heavy duty stapler that leaves big huge rounded staples will get way less use now.

I understand frustration when buying products and then the wrong item arrives from Amazon or their 3rd party vendor. Having stated that, why give the product itself a mediocre review when the product is not at fault, or purpose for reviewing? I reason there's no problem venting frustration in a review unless, of course, it's the sole purpose for rating a review. If the product is not the culprit in the review but only the shipper, it's a misleading eye catcher to see a mediocre star rating for others as a first impression to purchase the product or not. Just thought I'd vent a bit before commenting on these staples.UPDATE: Thanks to Bernard B., and his question to me through Amazon, my answer may help others. Amazon, however, should have added this much needed info when writing in their spec and tech info area because this has always been a major peeve of mine with Amazon or their 3rd party vendor if you've read many of my reviews, and that's the lack of needed info to make an informed purchase. Regardless, the answer is 1,000 staples per box for this part number. These staples are for the Bostitch EZ Squeeze 130 stapler only. Thanks again Bernard as I should have given this info in my initial review because Amazon does not.These high carbon staples, which are harder than regular staples, pierce through stacks of paper completely without any bent staples within the paper stack, but they do bend as they're designed at the crimping block pad of the stapler without breaking. In other words they're heat treated perfectly. They're hard and tough enough to go through large stacks of paper, and yet soft enough to crimp without breaking. The engineering and the design to their cost is a great bargain for what they do in saving the user a lot of frustration and wasted time, and one size staple fits all paper stacks to be stapled from 2 up to 130 sheets of 20# paper (more or less using a another weight paper). We may take this caliber of staples for granted because staples, generally, are not very expensive--even ones of this uniformity, reliability, and the engineering behind them from their inception to the end user. Remember, for the want of a horseshoe Napoleon lost a major battle. So don't take the little things for granted.I highly recommend these staples and the Stapler they're designed to fit (the Stanley Bostitch EZ Squeeze 130 Flat Clinch Reduced Effort Stapler (B8130). Their combined purchase makes this marriage an investment for a lifetime in your office environment, and the cost of supporting them is the best deal you'll likely find for your office. As the Cableguy would say, "Git er dun."

Requires very little effort to staple 100 20-pound pages without failing to go through all pages, staple jamming and other problems. This is the easiest and best large capacity stapler I have ever used. It works right every time. The only difference between this stapler and other large capacity staplers that I can see is this stapler is very large compared to others, maybe because the height of the lever gives the user more leverage or the staples are different somehow. All I am sure about is it works right the first time.

I'm constantly stapling large stacks of papers and have tried all the other brands. I consistently got jams or half-stapled documents. This one works, very well, and the staples fold flat.The plastic casing of the stapler itself makes it look larger than my other ones, but the footprint on my desk is no larger.I've stapled about 300 packages with 100+ pages so far and all come out perfect and just as easy as the rest. It barely has a difference in feel between stapling 30 sheets or 130 sheets.Really recommend, by far easier to use than the swingline heavy duty and consistent results.

For the most part, I am happy with the stapler. It handles a thicker stack of papers quite easily. The one complaint that I have is the staple doesn't fully close and will catch on things or leave scratches. Regardless of the paper stack size I have to use something to press the staple ends flat. It isn't a huge deal but it isn't ideal.

This!!! The ultimate helper for the office when thick stacks of paper pose a challenge. Not anymore with this stapler. Easy to work with. And the best thing is: No matter how thick the stack is, the staple is always neat and completely flat at the back side, eliminating those nasty staple stings in your fingertips.

This stapler jams often. It does not staple as many sheets. The force when you press it isnt strong enough to do so and also is loose if you staple only a few pages. Depending on the staples it will bend the ends out which can cut fingers.

Unable to use regular staples.The point of contact was too far back for our needs

This is the best stapler I’ve ever had. I purchased my first ones on 2014 and 2015 and they work like new.

Comes with 2 rows of staples. Bought the official approved staples that goes with it and it’s working flawlessly from 2 to 130 sheets of papers.did not experienced jams or failures. Pretty easy to staple any amount of sheets if you go in one move and don’t stop half way.

It works really well especially for larger wads of paper. Not so good for a couple of sheets but that’s not it intended purpose.

Great! Staples 100 pages with minimal pressure.