A Closer Look At The Okidata C5200 Printer With Okidata 42127403 Toner

Ever since the Okidata C5200 printer and Okidata 42127401 yellow toner was released, it has been regarded as one of the best low-cost color printers in its time. The primary reason for all the success is its price. At $800, it was the most affordable colored laser printer. Let us look at it again and see if it can still beat the latest laser printers available.

It is important to get a printer that is fast enough to handle multiple users. The C5200 is not always the fastest laser printer around, but its speed is enough to handle most printing jobs. For the monochrome prints, it averaged 24 pages a minute, while for the colored prints it was able get around 16 pages per minute.

Quality is also a very important factor that needs special attention. There are printers that can print 25 or more pages in a minute, but that speed may be the reason for blurriness and smudges. The Okidata print quality for text was excellent. However, the color and photo quality was below average, but it was still able to beat its more expensive counterparts.

An average office prints around 30,000 pages in a month. Printing cost should be of reasonable price. The Okidata C5200 printer and toner can print at average cost of 2 cents for monochrome pages and 14.1 cents for colored ones. The printing cost of monochrome pages is actually very reasonable since most laser printers print at the same rate. However, the colored printing is a little expensive.

With a duty cycle of 50,000 pages in a month, this makes the C5200 is a cut above the rest. It is able to provide an average of 20,000 pages more when compared to other laser printers in its class. The combined total of all its paper trays can handle up to 930 sheets. The Okidata printer is also network friendly since it has an Ethernet port. It does not require any special setup. Just plug it to the router and it will configure itself. Since the printer can be connected directly to a router, it does not need a dedicated computer to be its server. Anybody in the network will be able to use it. You can also plug in directly through the USB.

The maximum printing resolution is 1200 x 600 dpi. That goes for both colored and monochrome prints. If you want to get a duplexer, one is available at around $300. This will enable the printer to print on both sides of the paper automatically. For a colored printer, the C5200 is actually smaller than most. Its size is comparable to a 17-inch CRT Monitor. It weighs around 57 lbs, which makes it one of the heaviest printers in its class. It is highly recommended that you find a permanent place for it. Moving something as heavy as this is dangerous and painstaking work.

The Okidata laser printer is powered by a PowerPC 200 MHz processor and a pre-installed 32 MB RAM. The RAM can be expanded up to 288 MB, which is very useful if your office prints many images. It can also accept almost all kinds of paper.

Although it has been almost six years, the Okidata C5200 printer is still one of the best colored printers out in the market. Oki provides quality prints without the hefty price. Shop at online retailers to find the best deals on laser toner cartridge.