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by dublin 1406 days ago
OKI has absolutely the best color laser (really micro LED strip) printers, and they work flawlessly with PCs, Macs, or Linux, PCL, PS, or native, and wired or wireless (depending on model). I swore off all inkjet printing after buying my first color OKI over 20 years ago, and that decision has saved me thousands in ink and uncounted hours of frustration as I watched that ink being spewed out to clean clogged printheads. Life is too short to use inkjet printers.

OKI's toner is polymer, so in addition to looking great on paper, you can print on "weatherproof laser labels" and they will last for years outdoors. (Outdoors, colors eventually fade, especially red and blue, but the blacks are still very readable on some devices I've deployed after over a decade outside. Not bad for what were intended to be temporary prototype labels...)

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Looks like OKI has pulled out of the America's market as of 2021.

https://www.oki.com/us/printing/

What's a good model number for OKI? I'm in this market and have already had to send back a couple of printers for (among other things) dropped network connections.
I miss my 1993 OKI OL-400ex, such an elegant printer for its day. Like current Brothers.