Okidata C5100 Printer: Seeing The Specifications And Overview

Sizing up the Okidata C5100 printer quickly reveals a model from the manufacturer that’s meant to print out in both monochrome black-and-white and color. In addition, it can be connected to a workgroup network or used just as a standalone printer. It will work well within a home environment, and the Okidata 42127403 cyan toner is able to produce graphics-rich documents and presentations with ease. Currently, a refurbished unit costs between $380 and $450.

When it comes to the speed of the printer, the Oki C5100 bulk toner performs at a high level in both monochrome and color modes. Monochrome pages will emerge from the printer at over 20 per minute while this particular Okidata is able to put out 12 pages per minute of color product. This last is actually a very high level of performance when the printer’s overall price is taken into account.

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.

The manufacturer’s obviously designed this particular printer to be able to make use of a wide variety of Windows operating systems as the host server for the printer. What this means is that the C5100 normally has to access the PC’s operating system to process print jobs, though there’s a built-in networking technology suite that allows many more users to make use of the printer, if needed.

This being a color printer, it’ll be the case that four separate printer cartridges will be required. As with other color units, black, magenta, cyan and yellow cartridges will be the norm. A particularly nice aspect of the C5100 is that it’ll still perform well even if one of the cartridges has run dry. Replacement cartridges, though, can be a bit expensive at about $150 for a set, though they also last for a long time.

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.

In terms of memory and speed, this current model comes standard with a 200 MHz processor and 32 MB of RAM, which can be upgraded to 288 MB. In terms of print resolution, most experts who have evaluated the C5100 give it top marks because it can put out product at a fine 1,200 x 600 dpi (dots per inch). This means that the quality of the print will be crisp, clean and sharp.

There are a number of online reseller and retail websites currently offering the C5100 for well under $450 for a refurbished unit. There’s also no dearth of online retailers offering the Oki C5100 bulk toner.  A set of Okidata 42127402 magenta toner usually starts somewhere around $150, though it’s worth noting that often better prices on remanufactured toner can be found online.