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OkiData C3530
The OkiData C3530 is aimed squarely at the small workgroup who needs good quality color printing with multifunction attributes. Oki, quite confidently say that the C3530 can outperform and print better than any other product in the market. That is quite a bold statement considering the competition from the likes of Panasonic, Xerox, Brother and Dell. They have all produced great quality machines over the past couple of years that definitely take some beating.
Despite being an awkward looking machine, the C3530 is a performance powerhouse for its price. It prints monochrome at a rate of 20 pages per minute and color at 16. The finish is excellent for both. Out test document consists of 24 pages of text, graphs images and white space in order to test the reproduction thoroughly. The printer handled it perfectly and deposited the finished document in a little over 1 and a half minutes at 600 dpi. Increasing it to the ProQ2400 resolution setting didn’t even give the C3530 pause. It only took a few extra seconds and the difference was clear.
Despite those quick print times, copying is considerably slower. It took a little over a minute for an eight page color document, meaning 7 pages per minute, and 45 seconds for a mono version. Copying quality was still good though, with colors and grayscales being accurate and relevant. Scanning and faxing were both useable and of a good quality. Much of the operation of the C3530 can be done either at the machine, or from a PC connected to it or the network. You can print, scan, copy and fax to a USB key, but not from it. You can also broadcast faxes to email, as well as copy and print to it.
Overall, the C3530 is a good piece of equipment. The quality of the prints and scans is possibly up to Oki’s claims of being the best in class. Our testing certainly didn’t detect any obvious shortfalls. As to whether it is or not we would have to test it longer term. The true test of course is whether it works for the users or not.
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OkiData C3530
Despite being an awkward looking machine, the C3530 is a performance powerhouse for its price. It prints monochrome at a rate of 20 pages per minute and color at 16. The finish is excellent for both. Out test document consists of 24 pages of text, graphs images and white space in order to test the reproduction thoroughly. The printer handled it perfectly and deposited the finished document in a little over 1 and a half minutes at 600 dpi. Increasing it to the ProQ2400 resolution setting didn’t even give the C3530 pause. It only took a few extra seconds and the difference was clear.
Despite those quick print times, copying is considerably slower. It took a little over a minute for an eight page color document, meaning 7 pages per minute, and 45 seconds for a mono version. Copying quality was still good though, with colors and grayscales being accurate and relevant. Scanning and faxing were both useable and of a good quality. Much of the operation of the C3530 can be done either at the machine, or from a PC connected to it or the network. You can print, scan, copy and fax to a USB key, but not from it. You can also broadcast faxes to email, as well as copy and print to it.
Overall, the C3530 is a good piece of equipment. The quality of the prints and scans is possibly up to Oki’s claims of being the best in class. Our testing certainly didn’t detect any obvious shortfalls. As to whether it is or not we would have to test it longer term. The true test of course is whether it works for the users or not.
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