The Oki C5100 is a laser printer that performs wonderfully for its price. The only real downside to this printer is that it is pretty large, and if you purchase it, it will take up a good amount of desk space. However, if size is not a problem, then this is the printer for you.

The Oki C5100 printer is available with so many features. It can print both in color and in black and white very quickly. Its single-pass engine design can print up to twenty black and white and up to twelve color pages in just one minute. This feature makes it one of the fastest printers available in this price range. It also has a 250-sheet feeder. It also contains a network ready 10/100 Ethernet port and USB 2.0 connectivity feature.

This printer has four different toner cartridges. Every toner has a separate color. These colors are black, cyan, yellow and magenta. This is a very nice system, because if one color ink goes empty, you have no need too to replace the entire toner. You just replace that color ink. The Oki toner prints less pages than a standard toner. A complete set costs about $150 for a branded toner, not as much for a generic.

The solid ink made by the specific brand have noticeably higher costs. Some websites had the set of four toners priced at four hundred dollars! I would recommend the generic branded toners because they perform the same function at a lower price.

Okidata 5300 is one more printer done by the same company. The printer has double the amount of RAM in comparison to Oki C5100 and double its processor speed. But the printer speed is the same; the Oki 5300's ink prints twelve color pages per minute and 20 black and white pages a minute.

I hope this introduction to these wonderful color laser printers has helped in telling about the various features the two printers have and the prices of the ink toners that people always take into consideration when buying a printer. Ink costs are constantly a concern no matter what printer model is purchased, so take a moment to research and compare ink costs along with printer costs.

The Oki c5100 printer features a single-pass engine design that allows it to process 12 color pages, or 20 b/w pages, per minute and it contains a 10/100 Ethernet port and USB 2.0 connectivity. It comes with four separate toners, so the entire ink cartridge does not need to be replaced if you run out of one color. The Oki toner, however, yields less pages than a typical toner, and a complete set of generic toner costs about $150. Another available model, the Okidata 5300 has twice the RAM and processing speed of its predecessor. Printing speed remains at 12 color pages, or 20 b/w pages, per minute.