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OkiData C3200

The OkiData C3200 is a single pass color LED printer that provides good quality printing at a decent price. Aimed squarely at the small business or office, it can handle most things you can throw at it.

The control panel is just a matter of four LEDs, no screen, and a couple of buttons. It doesn’t have to feature anything else as it’s a printer, not a multifunction.

The toner cartridges themselves are pretty standard. The C3200 comes with the usual starter toners which will last for a thousand sheets or so. Changing the toner is simply a matter of lifting the lid and exposing the recess. They all sit horizontally in the bay and can all be removed easily. The package contains a starter toner which print around 2000 pages. New ones should last around 5000 for an average business document both black and color.

At an estimated 12 pages per minute for color and 20 for mono, the C3200 is no slouch. The print quality is very good, with the ink being spread evenly over large images and text, while being fine and sharp on even the smallest text. Printing grayscale documents also produced good results, with ink spread evenly across the whole image, with a good range of shades to simulate the color.

The top of the C3200 opens like a clam shell to allow access to the toners and drums underneath. The LEDs are fixed to the lid to prevent damage when changing the cartridges.

The drums and cartridges all lift out to expose much of the machinery underneath. This makes clearing paper jams easy as pretty much the whole path is open for you to see inside. Not that you will get any jams. The simple, straight paper path keeps the potential for jamming to a minimum, and the single pass system won’t keep the paper too long anyway.

With a simple, well thought out design, simple operation and faultless printing, the Oki C3200 is a user friendly, reliable printer. The ease of operation, coupled with reasonable running costs make this a worthwhile contender in the SOHO printer market.