The Color And Monochrome Okidata C5100 Printer
The color and monochrome black-and-white Okidata C5100 printer using Oki 42127403 toner is made to work both as a standalone and as a networked workgroup unit. It's also been designed by its maker to work well in a small home business environment, able to print out comprehensive proposals, presentations and other graphics-rich documents with ease. It can currently be found for between $380 and $450 dollars, refurbished.
The C5100 is no slacker when it comes to print speeds, either in color mode or when it's been tasked to put out monochrome product. Color pages can be produced, in fact, at a rate of 12 per minute. This is better than expected performance when factoring in the relatively low price of this Okidata printer. Adding to the attractiveness of this unit, it can also put out a sterling 20 pages per minute of monochrome product.
This particular Okidata printer comes with the ability to hold up to 400 sheets (300 in a tray and 100 in a manual paper feed tray), with optional trays increasing capacity to over 900 sheets of paper. The C5100 can also be equipped with an optional duplex unit that will allow it to perform double-sided print jobs, which only adds to the versatile nature of the printer.
Okidata made this printer to use a variety of Windows operating systems, including XP, as its host server. This means that it'll make use of the PC to process print jobs before sending those same jobs to the printer. The included built-in networking capability, though, means that many more users than just one will be able to make easy use of the unit.
This Okidata makes use of four single toner cartridges, as most color and black-and-white printers do. In this case, the C5100 uses one each of black, yellow, cyan and magenta. The printer will still run well, even if any single one of the three color cartridges runs out of ink. Keep in mind that replacement sets of the cartridges can run from $150 on up. The upside is that they're fairly long-lasting.
The C5100 comes with various wired connectivity technologies, including up-to-date Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX and USB 2.0 ports. This will help to make the printer fairly easy to connect to a PC or to an existing networked workgroup via its suite of networking technologies. Both its processor and its random access memory (RAM) are double that of the line of printers it was built to replace, making it quick when it comes to producing print tasks.
In terms of that speed and memory, the standard on-board processor is a 200 MHz unit while the printer itself is equipped with 32 MB of RAM, which is usually enough to accommodate most print jobs, even if several users at once are sending jobs to the printer. That RAM can be upgraded to 288 MB, if needed. The printer delivers fine print resolutions, at 1,200 by 600 dots per inch (dpi). Print emerging from the C5100 will emerge looking uniformly clean and sharp.
This offering from Okidata can be found at a number of online retail and reseller outlets, usually in a good-as-new refurbished state. Expect to pay anywhere from $380 dollars to $450 for a nice unit. Oki c5100 print cartridges are also available in plentiful numbers and they're fairly long-lasting. Oki 42127403 toner can be found for different prices, running in local stores at around $150 for four. Online retailers often have better toner cartridge prices, so shopping around is a good idea.
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