OKI C3400n

High-quality text printing, fast colour printing, compact size

Expensive operating costs, no paper handling upgrades

This entry-level colour laser delivers high text quality and fast colour speeds, but operating costs are high.

High-quality text printing Fast color printing, compact size

Expensive operating costs, No paper handling upgrades

This small entry-level model is fast at printing both text and color graphics, though paper handling is limited.

Fast. Ethernet connection. Reasonably good text and graphics quality.

Shiny toner reflects light, making text hard to read from some angles in some lighting conditions.

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Fast. Ethernet connection. Reasonably good text and graphics quality

Shiny toner reflects light, making text hard to read from some angles in some lighting conditions

The C3400n from OKI Printing Solutions is a typical Oki color printer, strong on speed but a little weak on output quality.

We like the Oki C3400n's high-quality text printing, fast colour printing and relatively compact size, but the operating costs are steep.

The C3400N is a very fast colour printer for the money, but its results are poor. It's around as expensive to run as Samsung's CLP-300N, but it's far bulkier and is harder to set up and maintain. Lexmark's C530dn costs only £2 more, is cheaper to run...

Superspeedy color prints; excellent quality with black text; straight pass-through; network ready; expandable memory; 24/7 customer support.

Paper capacity is not expandable; no duplexer; color prints are on the pricey side.

The Oki C3400n laser printer is networkable and fast with color prints, but its paper-handling options are limited, and like all lasers, its color prints are pricey and prone to errors.

That’s not to say it’s a bad printer, though. The quality of its prints isn’t stunning but it’s perfectly acceptable, both with plain text and images, and the speed is even more impressive. It churned out our 50-page mono letter in a quick 2mins...