Advantages: Inexpensive cost per page, quick, parallel and USB interfaces Disadvantages: no printed manual, no cables, slightly tricky to get going
Having suddenly started generating a lot of monochrome output I decided to take the pressure off my existing photoprinter - especially as the price per page is in excess of 30p.
I did a bit of research and ended up with this one that fit my needs - I needed something with a parallel interface to couple onto a network print server I already had, or that had an ethernet interface built in. The latter pointed me in the direction of printers in the ... ...pay.
Anyway - enough of my life story - I bought it, it arrived and I unpacked it. It's a reasonably compact footprint for a printer - and unlike most others in the price range it has a proper paper drawer - so your unused paper stock is not out and being covered in dust. All the packaging removed, toner cartridge was installed (slight toner spill in doing so) and power applied.
The printer warmed up and immediately gave a paper jam error. Turned ...
Flibster 20.06.2006
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...had heard say that mark OKI is very good in printers and we found one that fulfilled our necessities and the truth is that we are very contentments at the moment with it. It is printer OKI B4100. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS: - TYPE OF IMPRESSION: MONOCHROME.
- TECHNOLOGY: LASER.
- IMPRESSION TECHNOLOGY: PARALLEL, USB 2.0.
- SPEED OF IMPRESSION: 18ppm
- RESOLUTION MAX. HORIZONTAL w/b: 1200 ppp.
- VERTICAL RESOLUTION MAX. w/b: 600 ppp. - SUPPORTED ... ...x 297mm). - SUPPORTED TYPES: EXCEED AND SIMPLE PAPER.
- TOTAL CAPACITY: 250 PAGES. - RAM MEMORY: 8 MB. - DIRECT IMPRESSION: WITHOUT DIRECT IMPRESSION.
- VOLUME OF MONTHLY WORK: 15000 pages. - CARTRIDGES: 1 AND BLACK.
- REQUIRED OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows XP, 2000, 98 and NT 4.0.
- WIDTH: 35 ' 5 cm
- HEIGHT: 20 cm.
- DEPTH: 39 ' 5 cm.
- WEIGHT: 9KG. Since I have commented to you in the characteristics it is a monochrome printer, it only must ...
whitegirl 20.08.2006
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