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My old OKI color laser was showing its age, so I decided to upgrade after about 7 years of reliable output. Two primary reasons I chose this one for replacement are outstanding customer service by the manufacturer and the ability to print on card stock. The range has been expanded for thickness of acceptable card stock and the print quality has gone from good to really impressive for a color laser printer. Duplex printing [included] came as a bonus.

For my home office this has been a very useful tool and color copies are still cheaper than inkiet, not to mention not affected by moisture. It is also amazing how much a little color for letter heads and such really punch up visual appeal for business materials.

Set-up was plug and play.

The downside is that resolution is limited to 600 x 1200 dpi, so for max resolution photo printing, the inkjet is still ahead, but for most office use this is hard to beat. Hidden in the printing software splash screen are some controls that enhance the print quality but are not mentioned in the instruction book. With these settings on maximum quality, the output was amazingly photo-like.

The trend now seems to be for printer manufacturers to include some sort of "chip" with ink and toner cartridges making it more difficult for aftermarket suppliers to provide refills. The outrageous price for refills will continue to drive the market for cheap alternatives for all printer types.

The manufacturer includes starter cartridges that have less than a full charge compared to the replacement cartridges which is irritating, but also apparently common.

Great prints and easy-to-use make this printer a winner in my book.

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This is a good printer. It is fast and the image quality is good. It also takes up much less space than my previous laser printer. Initially, I had a problem with the printer not printing graphics from my MS-Access reports, but after calling the tech help number for OKI I found out that I had to use the PS driver instead of the PCL driver to print the graphics. I ended up installing both drivers and I use the PCL most of the time, but when I am printing the MS-Access reports I have to use the PS driver for all of the graphics to print correctly. I don''t understand much about the technical aspects of the different drivers and why they exist, but if I could recommend anything to the company I would suggest that there only be one driver to print everything. Overall, this is a good printer, but be aware that there are two drivers.

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The OKI 530dn is an amazing color laser. Coming from a HP printer I am thrilled. First, after the first set of "gimped" toner, I get about a 40% savings in toner cost. The second is speed, this printer is literally 8X faster than the HP per page in color. The third is quality, although a hair less sharp than the HP the quality is awesome (you have to look under a loop to see the difference though) the colors come through with greater depth than the HPs. My HP gave up the ghost after only 10K pages, so we''ll see how the OKI does over the next few months. All in all, for the same price as the HP that died, this beats the HP hands down.

Downsides are that although network install was really easy, the instructions were not super clear. Also, the drums require a few pages of "break in", so your first few prints won''t be perfect. I assume that this happens every time you change drums. Also, OKI has limited customizations for paper choices, unlike the HP, which has a lot of paper options that calculate temperature, page thickness and saturation all on a micro level. If it had better drivers it may even out do the HP in every catagory.

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I''ve had several printers from HP, Brother, Samsung, Xerox, etc. This OKI printer is fantastic. It prints on both sides and is quick to output full color. I didn''t give it 5-stars because of the price and the price of toner. When I was about to purchase the printer, I watched the price for a few weeks because it would change almost everyday, which is really odd since the printer has been on the market for several years. Also, the printer takes the standard C M Y K toner cartridges, each at $140 from OKI or about $100-$110 from Amazon. It''s definitely a money pit, but the output is amazing. Fully worth the money if you are looking for a high quailty printer.

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I needed a 4 color laser printer with postscript support, and this model is one of a few that met the criteria and did not cost an arm and a leg. It works for what I bought it for. The full duplex function works fine, too. The images from this printer are much, much nicer than the same images from my Dell 1320c, which has performed flawlessly but lacks postscript support. The next Dell model that supports postscript is almost 3x the cost of this OKI printer.

Printed colored text isn''t fuzzy, either.

The OKI is noisier (fan noise, not printing noise) than my Dell and it takes longer to print the first page from standby. So far, those are my only small complaints. Not looking forward to new toner.

Edited to add 3/29/2012: I originally installed only the postscript (PS) drivers. Today I tried to print something from a web page, and it would not print, the printer would not wake from sleep mode either. Once I installed the PCL drivers, I could print the page once I selected the PCL printer. Two separate printers show up in the print menu (Windows XP): OKI C530(PS) and OKI C530(PCL). Before this point in time, printing images and documents using the PS driver worked fine.

Installing both drivers is recommended if this is not set up as a PS only printer.