OKI C530dn Printer Review
I timed the OKI C530dn on the latest version of our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), at an effective 7.5 pages per minute (ppm). The C530dn has a rated print speed of up to 31 ppm for monochrome and 27 ppm for color printing, about what we'd see if it were printing solely text pages. (Our test suite consists of text pages, graphics pages, and pages of mixed content.) It was marginally faster than the OKI C610n ($650 street, 4 stars), which I timed at 7.2 ppm on the same tests, and considerably faster than two Editors' Choice printers. We clocked the Dell 2150cdn Color Laser Printer ($399.99 direct, 4 stars) at 5.5 ppm, and the Xerox Phaser 6280DN at 4.5 ppm.