Taking A Look At The Okidata C5100 Printer

by garrett on April 26, 2010

Taking a look at the Okidata C5100 printer, when assessing it for possible use, demonstrates that Okidata certainly knew what it was doing with this color and monochrome unit. It can work equally as well as a standalone model or connected to a network workgroup, as a matter of fact. At present, refurbished models can be found that cost between $380 and $450. The C5100 does many things well, it must be said, and the 42127404 toner offers the print clarity every business seeks.

As far as print speed, as delivered by the C5100, it moves along at a nice clip in both color and monochrome mode. As far as color’s concerned, expect to be able to pull 12 pages per minute of high quality copy from the printer while monochrome pages emerge at a swift 20 pages in a single minute. Both are very nice levels of performance from a relatively inexpensive printer, by the way.

Paper holding capacity is also a fine 400 sheets, contained within two different trays. One is a manual paper feed while the other is contained within the printer and slides in and out. Optional trays can raise the amount of paper held within the printer by 500 additional sheets. It can also accomplish double-sided printing with an optional duplex unit, which is an added bonus.

It’s obvious that the manufacturer built this printer to be able to work well off of a number of different Windows operating systems. Normally, it will make use of the PC it’s hooked up to as a host server to process print jobs and then put out product. However, it also comes with a network capability, which means that a number of different users will be able to access the printer when required.

Because this is a color printer, four different cartridges will be needed; one of black, another of yellow, still another of magenta and one more of cyan. The printer, though, is an able performer even if one of the color cartridges runs dry. Keep in mind that color printers tend to come with higher-cost cartridge sets, and the C5100’s will start at $150 and go up from there. They do last a long time, fortunately.

Connectivity with the C5100 is also fine enough. It comes with an Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX port, as well as a modern USB 2.0 interface. It should be fairly simple to take the printer, then, and connect it to a networked workgroup or a single PC and in fairly rapid fashion, to boot. Okidata improved this printer over its predecessor printer by adding twice the RAM and processing speed.

When it comes to those to capabilities (RAM and processing speed), the memory that comes standard with the C5100 is a more-than-adequate 32 MB. This can be upgraded all the way to 288 MB, which should be more than sufficient for most any network. Additionally, the 200 MHz processor will be able to take in many tasks and then turn them around with little trouble or delay.

At present, the Okidata C5100 printer is being offered by a number of online retailers and resellers at between $380 and $450 for a nicely-refurbished model. There are also a great many retailers that carry Oki C5100 compatible toners. Keep in mind that Okidata 5000 series toner runs about $150 for a set. It’s definitely worthwhile to check with online bulk toner retailers for their prices which are often much better.

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