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

The printer has four single , one black, one magenta, one cyan, and one yellow. It's a great solution, in case you run out of - let's say - cyan, you have no need to change the full color toner, but you can simply replace cyan. But the Oki toner prints less pages than a normal toner, and a full replacement set costs $150, more or less in case of a generic brand toner.

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

Okidata 5300 is another printer done by the same company. The printer features double the amount of RAM compared to Oki C5100 and twice its processor speed. But the printer speed is the same; the prints twelve color pages per minute and 20 black and white pages a minute.

Hopefully, this information 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 purchasing 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.