Oki MC560n Review

The MC560n MFP from OKI Printing Solutions is a truly integrated color-and-mono device that can print, copy, scan and fax.

Let me get to the facts on this unit, basically this is an Oki Color Laser Printer with a Color Scanner attached. Not that this is a bad thing, personally I feel that this is a great low volume unit that is best suited for 300-500 color pages per month and upto 1,000 black pages per month.

I know of a few accounts who have the Oki 1624, similar print engine, similar document feeder and scanner. All of these accounts produced almost 40,000 pages over three years with no service calls. I would suspect that the same would hold true for the MC560n.

Let's face it, how much do we really copy nowadays? Not that much, however more and more we are scanning documents, so a healthy document feeder is a must for reliable feeding of documents. The OkiMC560n document feeder is not one of the best and nor is it one of the worst, keep in mind all document feeders on all MFP's priced under $1,000 dollars can be problematic. If you're hell bent on scanning go out and spend a few thousand dollars and you'll have a high end document feeder that will work day in and day out.

Print quality..., I have never heard of any complaints, everyone loves the the color that this engine reproduces, I've even had some say that I hope our larger unit will copy and print just as nice as the Oki.

As with all low end MFP's you'll pay a price for the consumables. The MC560's best attribute is its toner cost, though we reviewed this unit before official pricing was set. The unit ships with starter (2,000 pages) black and color toner cartridges. An 8000-page replacement black cartridge costs about $117 (.0146 cents per page). Each 6,000-page color cartridge costs about $177 (2.9 cents per color per page), yielding a total price of .1080 cents per four-color page. The separate drums for each color last 20,000 pages each and cost around $80 each or .016, add that to the .108 cost for toners. Based on 5% coverage the Oki comes in at .1240 per page for color with the consumables. When printing pages with 50% coverage expect to pay about 30 cents per page. It can get quite pricey when you add more coverage to the page, typically most brochures will be about 40% coverage.

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