Abstract: To investigate the effects of cigarette paper splicing at different machine speeds on cigarette paper consumption and cigarette quality, the testing was carried out on ZJ118 and ZJ17 filter cigarette makers and the number of splicing failures, cigarette paper consumption, number of defective cigarettes, and cigarette physical indices at different machine speeds were compared. The results showed that: 1) The number of cigarette paper splicing failures decreased at lower machine speeds and diminished to 0 when the speed of ZJ118 and ZJ17 approached to 5 000 and 4 900 cig./min, respectively. 2) Cigarette paper consumption due to splicing was generally negatively correlated with the machine speed. 3) The number of defective cigarettes was extremely negatively correlated with the machine speed during splicing. 4) Reducing the machine speed during splicing resulted in inconsistent physical indices of cigarettes, extremely significantly increasing the standard deviation of cigarette weight, and significantly increasing the number of cigarettes that exceed the limits. 5) The optimal speed of ZJ118 and ZJ17 filter cigarette makers for splicing was 6 000 and 5 600 cig./min, respectively. These results provide references for optimizing the technical parameters of filter cigarette makers.