OKI C3450 Review

Oki's C3450 takes up a smaller amount of room than Lexmark's huge C500n

, but it is nonetheless a sizable box manufactured from two-tone grey plastic.

The network setup wizard quickly discovered our printer. Additionally, it put in Oki's Status Monitor. This produces the menu options you would come across on the LCD display screen of a much more sophisticated printer, however we found it awkward. We liked the web interface, which presented a complete set of monitoring and configuration tools, after we had logged in as the administrator with the username and password supplied inside the Network Guide.

The driver defaults to an enhanced 600x1,200dpi resolution instead of the printer's regular 600x600dpi mode. Each settings had similar print rates of speed. Additionally, there is a Q2400 option, of which simulates 600x2,400dpi. We made use of this to print the test photos and also small font size test, even so the improved resolution seemed to be of minimal benefit. We found 5pt and 6pt text poor as well as challenging to read.

However, text printed at 8pt and above seemed to be crystal clear, dark and also well-defined. We were satisfield with the brilliant rendering of colour diagrams, charts as well as illustrations in the mixed-colour document test, although a few seemed over-saturated. The colour toner created a lustrous and also professional finish even on cheap paper. The inaccurate colour was a lot more noticable in the photographic image prints. The driver defaults to composite black, and this gave prints a red shade. Impelling the printer to make use of true black made uninteresting images with severe colour transitions and also dithering in dark parts. Greyscale photos also fared inadequately, with most light grey shades made as pure white.

Out of the box, this printer includes a low capacity, 1500 page OKI C3450 toner cartridges, it is better to replace these when they run out with the high yield variations giving 2,500 prints. Since this printer uses the same cartridges as other printers within the OKI range you will find compatible cartridges suited to use in this model and these will reduce your running costs. The unit utilizes a separate drum unit for each colour that should be changed every 15,000 pages thus you'll have to include this while working out total operating costs.

The C3450 performed very well in our print speed tests. Both plain text as well as image-laden colour documents printed rapidly, at 18.1ppm and 13.5ppm respectively, and even our very first page of mono text printed in 11 seconds from standby. However, the C3450's poor colour print caliber and also scarcely legible rendering of small fonts limits its practical use, in spite of pretty affordable print and ownership costs.

OKI toner cartridges are available here.

OKI C3450 Review

By: Theodore Beach

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