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How Oki products increase staff productivity, reduce down
time and keep the office tidy!
And the printers just keep on printing...
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Oil
Less Toner System
Understanding the issues of introducing such a fast workgroup
colour printer, Oki realised that the user intervention for
such a fast machine had to be cut dramatically. If the printer
was to work suitably in large corporate environments, remotely
from the network administrators, the printer had to be as
self sufficient as possible.
Traditional colour page printers incorporate an ‘oil
roller’ to introduce minute but very consistent amounts
of oil to the toner image on the paper prior to the final
fusing function of the printing process. The oil is used to
ensure smoothness of toner and therefore image and to put
a slight sheen on the toner.
Oki did not want to loose the benefits of the oil in terms
of image quality but needed to dispense with the user intervention
needed to periodically change the oil roller. Oki has developed
new colour toner that incorporates an oil substitute within
the toner compound that can still function correctly within
the electrophotographic printing process. – So, no more
oil roller changes. As an added bonus, Oki engineering found
that with some refinement of the balance of the various toner
constituent elements, that they could vary the output image
appearance. They have subsequently configured the toner production
process to give an extremely elegant, bold, saturated image.
This gives a high quality output to the printed image. The
resultant toner has also proved to give excellent smooth results
when printing on acetate media for overhead transparency projectors.
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Larger
Capacity Toner Cartridges
This speaks for itself. The toner cartridges now hold 10,000
pages worth of toner (5% coverage, A4).
No waste toner bottleto empty
Again to reduce the user intervention, especially for remote
administrators, there is no waste toner container. What little
waste toner that is produced by the printing process is circulated
back into the toner cartridge.
Again there’s an added bonus – the printer is
kept cleaner and there’s no possibility of toner spillage.
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Toner
Fuel Guages
Oki staff call them fuel gauges, call them what you like!
They can be found on the integral web server of the colour
printer network cards. Users can just type the IP address
into their Internet Browser and instantly be able to see and
control various functions of the printer.
Here’s what the user can see. Not only will network
administrators now know when the toner’s running out,
the printer users can check too to ensure that there is a
spare toner ready
Luckily our one looks quite full at the moment!
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E-mail
Alerts
Up to five e-mail addresses can be programmed into the C7000
Series. The appropriate people can then be warned in advance,
before the printer stops printing.
For example a ' toner low ' message can be e-mailed 1000
prints before it runs empty. Also ' paper low ' messages,
' output tray full ' messages and ' consumable end of life
' messages can be sent. Yet more examples of the thought
that has gone into the design of the C7000 series from Oki.
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