OKIB512dn A4 Monochrome Printer (Duplex, Network)

I hope that this review will help potential purchasers in deciding 'yes' or 'no' in respect of this printer. My needs are basically straightforward: a reliable work-horse black and white printer, capable of duplexing, for use on my none-standard OS (linux ... a 'Unix' type system) for use in a small home office. Reliability and consistency are the watchwords here and only time will tell!With the above criteria in mind I may have been better going for a printer which has been confirmed as having a proven driver for my OS, however, my choice was limited by my experience and perception of a reliable printer.I have to say that with a couple of (initial) hiccups, my experience has been in the main positive.I purchased the printer with a wireless card, this arrived separately and had to be installed. Physical installation was straightforward, however, when I managed to get into the admin menu (more to follow) I was not able to activate the card because the menu item for the wireless card wasn't there! Though I had installed the card properly and to my satisfaction, it obviously did not seat perfectly as some gently teasing to ensure the card was seated (and connected) brought the desired result; the next time in the admin menu the wireless card was there and I was able to activate it.My next issue (and this is a 'con' of the printer) is the two line display, I don't know the technical description but this is a dot matrix type of display (not lcd) and the letters are very s m a l l! The password characters are displayed so far left on the display, I found myself squinting to see the characters and searching for some of the none alpha numeric characters (to put my wireless password in) was not fun! Prior to purchasing the printer I had been to the OKI site and downloaded the pdf manual (637 pages! ... though for more than one printer). It's not immediately obvious how the password is inserted from the printer. I wanted to access the printer via the web administration but I made the assumption that the web address for this was as per the manual (this probably demonstrates my complete lack of knowledge of networking skills), this was not the case therefore I was forced to put a long and strong router password via the printer display. Fortunately this was a full character set and I was able to put some of the more esoteric characters which protect access to my equipment. My final hurdle was to find the correct web address and MAC address of the printer (I use MAC address filtering as a further means to make my system secure). These items were both to be found in the admin menu and once I had these I was able to both tell my router this was an authorised printer and finally (thankfully) access the printer via the web page. A word of caution is in order here: one of my first actions would normally be to change the admin password on the printer, however (and I may have read this wrong in the manual) it looks as though there may be more than one password in the printer (certainly for the secure printing facility a separate password/document name are used to limit access to documents). Passwords can be 6 to 12 characters long but there is no indication if none alpha numeric characters can be used.The printer has built-in provision for access to Google Cloud Print and also AirPrint which could be useful to some users. These are my main cons.I am pleased to say that now that these issues have been resolved I have been able to utilise the printer. Double sided printing has been a pleasure (I did take a chance that this would not work on my OS) and is more than sufficient for my needs. It may well be that users of more standard OS's (Windows and MAC) will have more functionality available (I think, for example, that the printer driver on these OS's allow choice of printer font to be made).The printers 'footprint' is pretty much standard with a black and white laser - bigger than an inkjet, but comfortably fitting on a desk. Standard page cassette holds about a ream and (from my perspective) usefully it will take larger than A4 ... I have a ream of foolscap (blast from the past) which I believe I will be able to use.All in all I rate this printer 8.5 out of 10. But with improvements to printer display this would go up. Linux users should note that OKI (Belgium) do have a postscript (ppd) file on their website, however, this did not work on mine and I was forced to use a generic (OKI) driver but this seems to work very well with the printer. I foresee no difficulty printing from my sophisticated DTP applications to this printer.