By Jim Hill
Retailing at £347 (around $450, AU$600), Oki’s C542dn may seem rather expensive for an office printer with no scanner or fax attached – and indeed it may look rather large considering that, too – but that’s because it’s built to excel at one task: printing. This it can do at speed with few pauses thanks to its deep 200-sheet paper tray (expandable to 350 sheets) and large toner cartridges that can supposedly yield up to 7,000 pages.
Even the colour touchscreen is generous in size at 7-inches. That’s important because it’s through this that you access the controls and additional apps that run on Oki’s smart extendable platform (sXP).
If capacity is one advantage of the C542dn, then upgradability is another. The firmware can be updated easily as new third-party apps compatible with the open Oki architecture come along. You can also add a Wi-Fi module, another paper drawer, or a cabinet stand.
Design and build
The surprising bulk of the C542dn makes it look like a museum piece from the 1980s, but it’s actually one of the most sophisticated printers we have tested. The tilting 7-inch touchscreen is the interface for an open platform that allows more printers to be linked together …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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