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OKI B431d A4 Mono LED Laser Printer

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OKI B431d Overview

250 Sheet Input Tray	Windows & Mac
USB & Parallel	100 Sheet Multi-Purpose Input Tray
Automatic Double Sided Printing	PCL5e, PCL6, Epson FX, IBM ProPrinter, PostScript3 emulation
330MHz PowerPC405 Processor	1200 x 1200 dpi Print
64MB (320MB Max) RAM	38ppm Mono Print
4.5 Seconds First page

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OKI B431d in More Detail

If you need a black & white printer that supports the highest levels of office productivity – without straining your budget – you need the B431. Built for speed and maximum efficiency, it produces the first printed page in less than 4.5 seconds and the rest at an impressive 38 pages per minute. And that’s just the start.
Choose the B431d for fast individual printing or the B431dn for sharing on the office network saving costs without losing productivity
Of course, there’s more to productivity than fast print speeds. The true 1200 x 1200dpi resolution delivers fine, crisp detail which is generously supported by a powerful 330MHz processor and 64MB of memory (expandable to 320MB), and a paper supply that can be increased to 880 sheets to mirror your productivity demands. There’s even a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray, supporting a range of paper sizes, to meet everyday office printing requirements. Plus, it comes with OKI Template Manager – making it easy for you to create and print a wide variety of office documents.

The compact design of the B431 means it can be placed on any desktop within your office. What’s more, its high yield toner lets you print up to 10,000 pages without replenishment, helping to keep user interventions and running costs down. Other essential features include automatic double sided printing as standard, a ‘Power Save’ mode that reduces energy consumption to just 8W, and because the toner cartridge and drum are separate, you get maximum use out of all consumables.
The B431dn also comes with our popular PrintSuperVision software – the smart way to actively manage your office printing, for improved control by tracking and monitoring usage of your networked printers.
Maximum reliability means maximum return on investment. And that’s what the B431 delivers. It uses ultra-reliable digital LED technology (pioneered by OKI and proven over more than 20 years) with fewer moving parts for exceptional durability. This robust, built-to-last design means that we are confident enough to give you our industry-leading three-year warranty at no extra cost.
Not only does the B431 give you much more for your money, but it’s surprisingly inexpensive to run. High yield consumable and built-in reliability all contribute to a low total cost of ownership.

OKI B431d mono printer
AC Cable (UK)
CD/DVD (including Software/ Utilities/ Drivers and User Manuals)
Setup Guide
Image Drum and Starter Toner = 1500 pages

Glossary Of Printer Terms

Specification Name

Value

First Page

4.5 Seconds

Mono or Colour Printer

Mono

Speed Monochrome

38ppm

Paper Handling Input 2

100 Sheet Multi-Purpose Input Tray

Paper Handling Input 1

250 Sheet Input Tray

Double Sided Printing Unit (Duplex)

Duplex as Standard

Printer Resolution

1200 x 1200 dpi

Technology

LED Laser Printer

Processor

330MHz PowerPC405

Memory (Maximum)

64MB (320MB Max)

Interface Type(s)

USB & Parallel

Printer Languages

PCL5e, PCL6, Epson FX, IBM ProPrinter, PostScript3 emulation

Product Group Output

Double Sided Printing

Automatic

Parallel Ports

1 x IEEE 1284 Bidrectional Parallel

Maximum Paper Size

Network Ready

USB Port

Yes

Parallel Port

Yes

Serial Port

Dimensions

244.5mm (H) x 387mm (W) x 364mm (D) - Weight 12kg

Mono Toner Life

3,000 Pages

Paper Handling Standard Output

150 sheets face down, 100 sheets face up

Warm Up Time

20 seconds from power save

Additional Paper Tray

optional 1 x 530 Sheet

Barcode Types

12 types of one dimension with 28 variations: UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13, Interleaved2of5, Code39, Code 128, EAN/UCC-128, CODABAR, ZIP+4POSTNET, Customer barcode, USPS Zip Barcode, 1 type of two dimension: PDF417

Drum Life

25,000 Pages

Environmental

Operating Temperature 10 to 32C - Humidity 20 to 80%

Paper Trays (Standard/Maximum)

2 (3)

USB Ports

1 x USB 2.0

Software Included

Template Manager, Configuration Tool, Op-Panel Download Utility, Print Control Server, Print Control Client, Storage Device Manager

Paper Size

A4, A5, B5(JIS), A6, Letter, Legal 13, Legal 14, Executive, Statement;

Power Consumption Printing/Standby/Sleep Modes

Typical: 550W; Max: 900W; Idle: 70W; Power Save: 8W

Font Capabilities

87 scaleable PCL and 136 PostScript fonts, 2 bitmap fonts, OCR-A/B

In The Box

OKI B431d mono printer, AC Cable (UK), CD/DVD (including Software/ Utilities/ Drivers and User Manuals), Setup Guide, Image Drum and Starter Toner = 1500 pages

Maximum Input Capacity

880 Sheet

Monthly Duty Cycle

80k Pages Per Month

Noise Level

54dbA

Operating Systems Supported

Windows & Mac

OKI B431d Consumables

OKI B431d Toner Cartridge (3000 pages)	44574702	£59.00 £70.80
OKI B431d Toner Cartridge (10,000 pages)	44574902	£104.00 £124.80
OKI B431d Image Drum (25000 pages)	44574302	£76.00 £91.20

OKI B431d Accessories

OKI B431d 2nd Paper Tray	44575702	£120.99 £145.19
OKI B431d 64MB RAM Memory	44615402	£26.99 £32.39
OKI B431d 256MB RAM Memory	44615411	£154.99 £185.99

OKI B431d Cables

OKI B431d Parallel Cable	parallelcable	£4.95 £5.94
OKI B431d USB 2.0 Cable (1.8 Metre)	usbcable	£4.95 £5.94
OKI B431d USB 2.0 Cable (3 metre)	usbcable3m	£6.95 £8.34
OKI B431d USB 2.0 Cable (5 Metre)	usbcable5m	£9.95 £11.94

Compare Range		Memory	Double Sided Printing	Network Ready	USB Port	Additional Paper Tray	Price
OKI B431d	more info	64MB (320MB Max)	Automatic	-	Yes	optional 1 x 530 Sheet	£161.62
OKI B431dn	more info	64MB (320MB Max)	Automatic	Yes	Yes	optional 1 x 530 Sheet	£222.00

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by O Lawton
19/1/2012

Network Printer Excellent service in prompt delivery of ordered printer. Printer meets all expectations only reservation was slight difficulty in installation of driver software.

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Review Date: 3rd Aug 2010

Author: Simon Williams

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Fast mono laser printers are still the stalwarts of most offices and OKI has revamped its mid-range offerings with new LED engines and built-in duplex print. In the process, they've updated the styling and improved the looks.

In a cream and light-grey case, the B431dn is neat and unobtrusive, as a good printer should be. The deep-set indentation in its top cover shows that it's designed to cope with relatively high workloads, where higher-capacity output trays are a necessity.

This capacity is matched by a 250-sheet input tray and a flip down 100-sheet multi-purpose tray for letterheads or envelopes. An additional tray, with a healthy 530-sheet capacity, is available as an option, to sit underneath the printer.

The control panel, which OKI points out is the same as on their new range of colour printers, thus making it easy to move from one model to the other, has a simple, four-way control disc for menu operations and two buttons for Online and Cancel. Indicator LEDs are mounted in the printer's front page to show Ready and Attention conditions.

There's a 2-line by 16-character LCD display, which would be a bonus if you could read it. As it is, without a backlight, with the display angled at around 45-degrees, and with a reflective acrylic face, it's very hard to see what it says. A couple of white LEDs would be all that was necessary for a backlight, so hardly a major cost burden.

The B431dn comes as standard with USB, Ethernet and legacy parallel connections and the whole machine is easy to set up. There's a two-part drum and toner cartridge, where the toner cartridge clips into the drum that carries it. The whole assembly dropped into place from the top, taking literally seconds to change.

Drivers are provided for Windows and OS X and are available for various Linux distributions. It's also compatible with a wide variety of network protocols.

OKI claims a top print speed of 38ppm for this machine, which is one of its selling points. As we include processing time in our measurements, the speeds we see are usually quite a bit lower, and our 20-page print clocked up just 25.5ppm. This is still a healthy print speed, but when we printed in draft mode, which in OKI’s case is really just a toner save mode, we still didn't get close to 38ppm.

This printer offers duplex print as standard and feeds paper very efficiently, with each completed page followed immediately by the first side of the next. We measured it at 17.1 sides per minute, making it possible to set the machine to duplex by default, without wasting a lot of time waiting for jobs.

A 15 x 10cm photo print on an A4 sheet took an impressively short 15 seconds at the printer’s top resolution and just 10 seconds printed at its default 600dpi. With most printers spending most of their lives asleep waiting for the next job, the wake-up times are important and this machine takes 20 seconds to heat its fuser up, which will add significantly to intermittent print times.

Print quality from the newly-engineered engine is extremely good. Text is sharp and clean, looking almost like traditional print. Even with toner-save switched on, it's still very readable, though a little light and grey.

Greyscale graphics are smooth, with very little blotchiness or banding. The only slight problem is a reduced range of grey shades, meaning that some colours in an original can be represented by very similar greys.

Photo reproduction, normally a bugbear with mono lasers, is very good, with lots of foreground detail and enough in the difficult, darker shadowed areas to still see what's going on. Although there are some differences between the default 600dpi resolution and the top level, true 1,200dpi, both are good and show virtually no banding.

This printer can handle a wider than normal range of paper sizes and you can load paper from A6 all the way up to a 1.2m banner. Useful at one end for ID cards and at the other for 'Well done on the sponsored Bat Watch' placards.

The toner cartridge is available in two capacities: 3,000 and 10,000 pages and the drum should need replacing only every 25,000 pages. Using the best prices we could find on the Internet gives a cost per page of 2.3p, including 0.7p for paper.

This is better than most of the mono laser printers and all-in-ones we've reviewed recently, though we have seen machines, like the Samsung ML-3471ND, which have a cost per page of under two pence.

Verdict

This is a well-conceived, mid-range, laser-equivalent printer that uses OKI’s mature LED print technology to great effect. The new LED engine is quick and produces quality print of text, graphics and even photographic documents. Running costs are better than most and the only quibble we have is with the LED display. It could do with one of OKI’s high-intensity LEDs as a backlight.

All consumable life cycles are MANUFACTURER ESTIMATES based on 5% per page coverage.

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