Color Laser Recommendations

[Commentator]

I am dyslexia of borg

Your ass will be laminated

LOL

 

[Stick Stickus]

This is a review of the laser I have, you can still find these about at
reduced prices as they are now superseded by the 3200 series. I find them a
fast reliable printer that will print photo quality on standard paper which
is a bonus.
Oki - C3100 review
Good value colour laser printer (02/03/2005)



Colour laser printer prices have dropped dramatically over the last couple
of years, and you can now get a very serviceable machine, like Oki's C3100,
for under £500 at street prices. This is a printer designed for a small
office or an individual needing relatively high-volume colour prints. It's a
lot more economical to run than an equivalent colour inkjet. Print costs are
low for this category of colour printer.

There are two things unusual about the C3100. Firstly, it uses an in-line
engine. This means that, rather than having a 'carousel' with the four
colour toner cartridges mounted in it and rotating them to lay each colour
in turn onto a single photosensitive drum, this machine uses a
photosensitive belt and lays colour from separate hoppers in a single pass.
The technique should be quicker than a carousel and is unusual in a colour
printer at this price point.

Secondly, like all Oki laser printers, it's actually an LED printer. Oki
uses a strip of high-intensity LEDs in place of a laser beam to write each
page. This sometimes puts a limit on the top resolution of the printer
(though here it's a healthy 1,200dpi), but the LED strip takes up a lot less
room than a laser engine.







Controls on the printer are simple, with buttons to turn it on and offline
and to cancel a print job. There are also four indicators for power, paper
out, low toner and paper jam. The paper comes from a 300-sheet built-in
paper tray under the printer, and there's also a 100-sheet multi-purpose
tray which folds down and slides out from the front of the machine. At the
rear is a single USB 2 socket - there's no parallel or network connection on
the C3100.

The Windows driver is pretty complete and includes functions to print
watermarks and to control colour, though there is no direct adherence to any
colour standards.

Printed output is generally pretty good. Black text is clear and sharp with
very little toner spray along the edges. Colour graphics are also well
reproduced, with little banding in areas of fill.

 

[No Dummy]

Keep in mind that Measekite does not know about anything except one
Canon iP4000, and that one only with stock Canon cartridges. Everything
else he states, IN BIG IMPRESSIVE CAPS, is just based on his overactive
imagination. He is definitely not IN DA BUSINESS, or in da know! He is
IN DA DARK! and eat up with the dumass.

 

[ian lincoln]

This is a review of the laser I have, you can still find these about at
reduced prices as they are now superseded by the 3200 series. I find them
a fast reliable printer that will print photo quality on standard paper
which is a bonus.
Oki - C3100 review
Good value colour laser printer (02/03/2005)



Colour laser printer prices have dropped dramatically over the last couple
of years, and you can now get a very serviceable machine, like Oki's
C3100, for under £500 at street prices. This is a printer designed for a
small office or an individual needing relatively high-volume colour
prints. It's a lot more economical to run than an equivalent colour
inkjet. Print costs are low for this category of colour printer.

There are two things unusual about the C3100. Firstly, it uses an in-line
engine. This means that, rather than having a 'carousel' with the four
colour toner cartridges mounted in it and rotating them to lay each colour
in turn onto a single photosensitive drum, this machine uses a
photosensitive belt and lays colour from separate hoppers in a single
pass. The technique should be quicker than a carousel and is unusual in a
colour printer at this price point.

Secondly, like all Oki laser printers, it's actually an LED printer. Oki
uses a strip of high-intensity LEDs in place of a laser beam to write each
page. This sometimes puts a limit on the top resolution of the printer
(though here it's a healthy 1,200dpi), but the LED strip takes up a lot
less room than a laser engine.

Controls on the printer are simple, with buttons to turn it on and offline
and to cancel a print job. There are also four indicators for power, paper
out, low toner and paper jam. The paper comes from a 300-sheet built-in
paper tray under the printer, and there's also a 100-sheet multi-purpose
tray which folds down and slides out from the front of the machine. At the
rear is a single USB 2 socket - there's no parallel or network connection
on the C3100.

The Windows driver is pretty complete and includes functions to print
watermarks and to control colour, though there is no direct adherence to
any colour standards.

Printed output is generally pretty good. Black text is clear and sharp
with very little toner spray along the edges. Colour graphics are also
well reproduced, with little banding in areas of fill.

Has anyone ever heard of this lot?
www.tallygenicom.co.uk

 

[Frank]

Keep in mind that Measekite does not know about anything except one
Canon iP4000, and that one only with stock Canon cartridges. Everything
else he states, IN BIG IMPRESSIVE CAPS, is just based on his overactive
imagination. He is definitely not IN DA BUSINESS, or in da know! He is
IN DA DARK! and eat up with the dumass.

We've all asked our resident jackass meashershithead whether having the
expert professional advice of someone like Tony, who is in the business
is better than having, say the advice of a ****ing idiot moron like
meashershithead.
Guess he don't know the difference.
Figures.
Frank

 

[measekite]

We've all asked our resident jackass meashershithead whether having
the expert professional advice of someone like Tony, who is in the
business is better than having, say the advice of a ****ing idiot
moron like meashershithead.
Guess he don't know the difference.
Figures.
Frank

I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT OKI BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT TONY IS IN DA BUSINESS AND
ASK YOURSELF ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY IF IT BREAKS DOWN SO HE CAN MAKE MONEY.

I WOULD GO TO THE REVIEW AT PCMAG.COM RATHER THAN LISTEN TO ANYBODY ON
THIS NG.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

I knew of a company years back called Mansmann-Tally (I think that was
the spelling). They had some interesting printers back then, large
lasers, color proofing lasers, solid ink and dye sub printers. Mainly
sold to industry/printing companies.

Genicom was yet another printing company, which I think used to use
other brands of printers and do "value added" conversions to them. I
think they showed one of the first continuous paper laser printers.

The industry has done a lot of consolidation in recent years, so it
wouldn't surprise me that these companies might have merged.

Art