Sturdy, works easily, and does a great job.

I've always had a black Swingline (44401A), and it has lasted basically forever, looks like, you know, a stapler, and does, I thought, a fine job of stapling

In any case, the stapler has a nice paint job to it, it looks spiffy and is hands down better than the garbage stapler they provide at the office

It does a nice job of stapling pages, not sure about the limit, but it did great with a 10 sheet report.

This Stanley, though, does a better job, and feels nicer to my hand while I'm stapling