OKI vs iColor
OKI has a vast 40-year history of manufacturing printers, including color printers for over 22 years.This experience goes into every OKI Digital Transfer Printer built and is married with the latest technology to deliver rich color and vibrant white that stands out from the competition.
In the world of white toner laser printers, there are two prominent names that come to mind: OKI and iColor. Both brands offer printers that allow you to create a variety of custom decorated products including T-shirts and apparel, ceramic mugs, wooden signs, and much more. This is all made possible by their white toner printing technology, which is designed specifically for heat transfer applications. White toner allows you to print and transfer photo-quality designs to any color of surface, including black and dark-colored T-shirts, while other decoration methods like sublimation are limited to white and light-colored products. Though both brands of printers, OKI and iColor, offer seemingly similar printing capabilities, one of the brands shines high above the other, and that brand is OKI. Let’s get into the reasons why you should choose OKI over iColor for your next white toner laser printer – starting with a comparison of the two brands.
ADVANTAGE: OKI
✓ OKI’s open platform gives users media & RIP options – so you’re not locked into a single solution.
✓ 2-year on-site warranty
✓ Larger media sizes
✓ OKI’s single pass technology and straight-through paper path
✓ True Black – more colors, better details, and savings
✓ Pro8432WT flexible black/white toner swapping offers true black for critical projects
✓ 5-station advantage: Pro9541WT has largest color gamut available and the most options for controlling white
✓ Intelligent White controls built into the Pro9541WT including spot color White and trapping
The superiority of OKI printers is echoed by industry leading partners that have developed media, transfer RIP software, fabrics and more, specifically for OKI Digital Transfer Printers. OKI resellers are carefully selected for their ability to help customize solutions that meet your needs, ensuing you have the tools and resources needed for success.
Our open platform allows users to choose from multiple software and transfer media partners, giving you more options to suit your decorating goals and maintain your budget. with OKI, you’re never locked into a single solution.
With OKI, you have the flexibility to use black toner when decorating white and lighter surfaces which helps to produce sharp details, deeper blacks, darker colors and saves you money.
For over 100 years, professional printers have known that combining Black (K) with Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMY) delivers a wider range of colors and the richest blacks. Without black toner or ink, graphics and photos lack depth, and attempts to simulate black using CMY often result in shades of brown.
Black toner delivers the sharpest edges and the most readable text. When layering CMY to create black, detailed edges may become fuzzy or show halos because of the overlapping toners.
Black toner delivers true black at a lower cost. Mixing CMY to simulate black uses more toner than just using black alone. Imagine the cost of running an inkjet printer to print text documents using CMY ink in place of using less expensive black ink? That’s just crazy.
Both the OKI Pro8432WT and Pro9541WT give you the option of using black toner, especially important when decorating white and light-colored materials. The 5-color Pro9541WT gives you both Black and White all the time, while the OKI Pro8432WT offers the ability to swap between using CMY+Black and CMY+White.
Single Pass Color™ technology and the straight through paper path engineered by OKI allows for faster print speeds, minimal paper jams, and supports thick & specialty media with ease.
Coatings on transfer media can be susceptible to rubbing off.
OKI’s straight through path avoids bending and scraping media.
Along with superior color control, intelligent color matching, and color calibration, OKI technology provides smart features to help you optimize the use of white.
The Pro9541WT is the only digital transfer printer that gives you both automated placement of white on existing designs, or the option to selectively control where and how much white is used by handling white as a spot color when using CorelDRAW and Adobe applications.
High-end features such as trapping are built into the OKI Pro9541WT, delivering the cleanest edges around your designs.