This laser printer, the Oki C5100, is a very good printer for what you pay for it. The only drawback to it is that the printer is somewhat big, and if you decide to buy it, it will take up a lot of your desk area. If you don't care about the size of your printer, however, then you will really enjoy this model.

There are many features optional on the Oki C5100. First, its single-pass engine design will print up to twelve color pages per minute and up to twenty black and white pages per minute. This makes it one of the fastest printers in its price range. The Oki C5100 also has a 250-page feeder, and an auto-duplex unit is also optional separately. A network-ready 10/100 Ethernet port and USB 2.0 connectivity round off the features.

The printer contains four different colors of toner cartridges, one for each color it uses to print. This is a remarkably useful system because if the cyan ink is all used up, then you don't need to purchase every color toner, just the cyan one. The Oki toner, unfortunately, lasts for less pages than your average toner, and an whole set will set you back about $150, if you purchase generic.

The original company's ink catridges are available at a very high price. On some websites you will find a set of four toners for four hundred dollars. However I recommend the generic brand toners, because they print the same quality at a lower price.

The Oki 5300 is also produced by the previously mentioned brand. This printer has double the RAM as its predecessor, and its processing speed is twice that of the old model. The speed of its printing has stayed the same, the Oki 5300's ink prints color pages at a rate of twelve a minute, and black and white pages at twenty a minute.

Hopefully, these details about color laser printers has been helpful in explaining to you the different features that these two printers have and the price of the ink toners that people factor in when buying a new printer. The price of ink is always of big importance, so make sure you take into consideration the price of ink along with the price of the printer.

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.