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The OKI C5950 is an excellent choice for office environments. It produces very high-quality prints very quickly (though the speed suffers slightly on small jobs). It is quite a bulky unit, so is unlikely to be set up next to a single user on his or her desk, but this size, as well as making it robust, also means that its ink capacity is impressive.
“The paperless office.” Anyone who works in a modern office environment knows the irony of this term. If anything, advances in information technology have resulted in an increase in paper usage, possibly because computers allow us to process larger volumes of data.
Printers are an essential tool for just about any business. As you can imagine, here at SACM we make heavy use of printers. While most ‘copy’ (written material) circulates electronically, it eventually reaches a point where a hard-copy proof is needed. And this is before you take into account the more generic administrative jobs involved in the day-to-day running of a company.
Due to the specialised nature of our line of work, we need particularly high fidelity reproduction of digital material. When printing early proof copies, for example, we generally want to have a good idea of how the colours are going to look, as well as the overall appearance of the layout. As a result, we appreciate printers that can produce high-quality colour prints.
Of course, we already have printers in the office, which means that most of our staff stuck to their existing configurations. A couple of us more adventurous souls (as well as those of us tasked with actually reviewing this unit), however, jumped on it quite enthusiastically, especially once we tried a few test prints and observed the excellent quality of the prints.
Connecting the printer is simple enough. One either connects it directly to a PC via its USB or parallel port, or one can hook it up to a local network. We opted for the second approach, thus making the unit available to anyone who might care to use it. This is probably the best way to connect it in most instances, as this unit is designed for the small to medium office or for departments within a larger corporation, not really for the home or the individual user.
It is bulky, and is not an MFP (multi-function printer), which means that it prints, but it cannot scan, copy or fax. This is a dedicated unit, which does one thing – and does it very well indeed. In fact, there is another reason why this printer is best suited to an office environment: it takes a while for it to get ready to print the first page (though once it gets going, it’s very quick indeed, and the quality it delivers is just about unbelievable, given how quickly it spits out those pages).
This means that you either send your print job and then get up from your desk and saunter over, by which time your print job should be done, or you send big print jobs to the printer for time efficiency. In addition, with several users frequently using the printer, its ‘warm-up’ time will be shorter, as it will spend more time in a state of readiness.
In terms of the print quality, I have already stated that it is superb. In addition to the colours being vibrant and the resolution very fine, the toner doesn’t soak into most paper types, so there is no smudging or blurring, which is the advantage of colour laser printers. It also has a slightly glossy finish, which looks fantastic on photos and the like.
“The paperless office.” Anyone who works in a modern office environment knows the irony of this term. If anything, advances in information technology have resulted in an increase in paper usage, possibly because computers allow us to process larger volumes of data.
Printers are an essential tool for just about any business. As you can imagine, here at SACM we make heavy use of printers. While most ‘copy’ (written material) circulates electronically, it eventually reaches a point where a hard-copy proof is needed. And this is before you take into account the more generic administrative jobs involved in the day-to-day running of a company.
Due to the specialised nature of our line of work, we need particularly high fidelity reproduction of digital material. When printing early proof copies, for example, we generally want to have a good idea of how the colours are going to look, as well as the overall appearance of the layout. As a result, we appreciate printers that can produce high-quality colour prints.
Of course, we already have printers in the office, which means that most of our staff stuck to their existing configurations. A couple of us more adventurous souls (as well as those of us tasked with actually reviewing this unit), however, jumped on it quite enthusiastically, especially once we tried a few test prints and observed the excellent quality of the prints.
Connecting the printer is simple enough. One either connects it directly to a PC via its USB or parallel port, or one can hook it up to a local network. We opted for the second approach, thus making the unit available to anyone who might care to use it. This is probably the best way to connect it in most instances, as this unit is designed for the small to medium office or for departments within a larger corporation, not really for the home or the individual user.
It is bulky, and is not an MFP (multi-function printer), which means that it prints, but it cannot scan, copy or fax. This is a dedicated unit, which does one thing – and does it very well indeed. In fact, there is another reason why this printer is best suited to an office environment: it takes a while for it to get ready to print the first page (though once it gets going, it’s very quick indeed, and the quality it delivers is just about unbelievable, given how quickly it spits out those pages).
This means that you either send your print job and then get up from your desk and saunter over, by which time your print job should be done, or you send big print jobs to the printer for time efficiency. In addition, with several users frequently using the printer, its ‘warm-up’ time will be shorter, as it will spend more time in a state of readiness.
In terms of the print quality, I have already stated that it is superb. In addition to the colours being vibrant and the resolution very fine, the toner doesn’t soak into most paper types, so there is no smudging or blurring, which is the advantage of colour laser printers. It also has a slightly glossy finish, which looks fantastic on photos and the like.