Okidata C5100 Toner Based Printer - Exceptional Color Laser Printer From Oki

Overview

The Okidata C5100 is one of the best printers in the world for combining print flexibility with overall affordability. Okidata has created a printer for business professionals that should allow them to meet all printing needs, including printing specialty documents on a wide variety of papers. This is a fast and efficient workgroup printer that will be an asset to almost any workgroup. Best yet, it's available at a very reasonable price.

Features and Functionality

This is a network printer which is designed to serve the needs of small to moderate sized Windows based workgroups. For work in an office environment, printers need two things to work well; speed and capacity. The Okidata C5100 does well in both of these areas. The Okidata C5100 cartridges print at a speed of 12 pages every minute in full color, and up to 20 in black. A great feature is the expandable paper tray, which when in place increases capacity up to 930 sheets. This keeps trips to the printer down to a minimum.

Another thing that can help reduce paper usage and time spent on tasks like replacing paper is the duplex printing feature of the printer. This is a feature that allows the Okidata C5100 cartridges to print on both sides of the paper. This saves you time and money with fewer reloads required and less paper to purchase.

The flexibility of this printer is a key feature, allowing you to print almost any kind of document that you might require. There is also a multipurpose paper tray; allowing you to load paper for specialty print projects. Whether it's a booklet, business cards, or banners up to 1.2 meters, you can handle the print job with this printer.

The Okidata C5100 cartridges come in four separate units, one for each color and the black Okidata C5100 cartridge. They have a good life of up to 5000 pages each; meaning that you can again get a lot of value for your money when it comes to running this printer.

This Okidata model also has a built in networking feature, making it easy to share it among your workgroup. The printer is compatible with all versions of Windows, from Windows 95 up to 64 bit Vista; meaning that it is going to be an asset to you regardless of the version of Windows that you've chosen to run on your network.

Conclusion

Running a printer in an office full time can get expensive, but Okidata can help you cut the costs. With the printer itself being reasonably priced, the addition of duplex capability, and the Okidata C5100 cartridges that last up to 5000 pages, this printer a very affordable one to run. This holds true even for companies that have heavy duty printing needs, which is what makes this printer such a good option.

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Okidata C5500 Toner Based Printer - Exceptional Print Quality From This Oki Color Laser Printer

Okidata C5500 Color Laser Printer

Overview

The Okidata C5500 is a high quality networked laser color printer. This printer excels at printing all types of print jobs at a very high quality. It manages to do so without giving up considerable printing speed in exchange for that quality. Because it is a fast printer with top notch visual performance, it is an ideal printer to operate in an office environment where regular printing of documents that need to look great or which contain a lot of graphics is the daily norm.

Features and Functionality

The Okidata C5500 is a printer that is designed for people or offices that need to print a lot, print fast, and print in high quality. This isn't something that most printers can unite, but Okidata has managed it here.

The print speeds are excellent. The Okidata C5500 cartridges can produce a full color document at around 12 pages per minute, putting it among the top of its class. Black pages with text and graphics can be printed much faster, with speeds going to 24 ppm. Quality at these speeds is excellent, with resolutions of 1200X600 dpi.

It is fast, but the quality of the Okidata C5500 cartridges print jobs is really where this unit shines. Text is extremely sharp and clear; making it not only readable, but professional looking. Color jobs come out with very vibrant colors that show sharp contrast between shades. The color printing quality of the Okidata C5500 cartridges put it well above the competition in terms of visual results among printers of a similar price range.

There are some accessories which can be bought to increase the capabilities and capacity of this printer. The first is the duplexer. While optional, many find this to be a very useful accessory as it provides the capability to print at top speeds using both sides of the paper.

Another option that is particularly useful in a busy office or where a very large network may be sharing this printer is the additional paper cartridge to increase your overall paper capacity. Normally, this printer operates with a very reasonable paper capacity of 300 pages. However, if your office is printing constantly, you might find that to be a bit limiting. That is where the expansion tray, which can increase your total paper capacity to 930 pages, can be very useful.

Conclusion

The Okidata C5500 is a printer for companies that take the quality of their print jobs seriously. If you need to produce documents that are being sent out to customers or shown to clients, you need a printer that produces documents that look professional, sharp, and attractive. That is exactly what this printer brings, earning it very high recommendations for businesses of all sizes.

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