We bought our Konika Minolta Magicolor 2350 laser printer four years ago. We use it at home but I print quite frequently. We decided to buy this printer because it is specially designed for optimal performance in Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and other environments as well. This was important for ... Read review
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Advantages: Vivid colours, reliable, prints beautifully Disadvantages: Photo printing quality is only 7/10 in my rating
We bought our Konika Minolta Magicolor 2350 laser printer four years ago. We use it at home but I print quite frequently. We decided to buy this printer because it is specially designed for optimal performance in Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and other environments as well. This was important for us, as I use Windows but my husband is an IT professional and uses several other operation systems on his computers and sometimes also he wants to print something. ... ...of printers of this type and he had really good opinion about them. This opinion hasn’t changed since then.
Price of the printer and cartridges
When we bought it, it was on offer, so it was “only” £650. It was a serious discount because its full price is £900.
There are four cartridges in it plus the drum cartridge, we had to change the black one once, the others are running quite low nowadays but they ... more
We bought our Konika Minolta Magicolor 2350 laser printer four years ago. We use it at home but I print quite frequently. We decided to buy this printer because it is specially designed for optimal performance in Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and other environments as well. This was important for us, as I use Windows but my husband is an IT professional and uses several other operation systems on his computers and sometimes also he wants to print something. He worked for a company where there were a lot of printers of this type and he had really good opinion about them. This opinion hasn’t changed since then.
Price of the printer and cartridges
When we bought it, it was on offer, so it was “only” £650. It was a serious discount because its full price is £900.
There are four cartridges in it plus the drum cartridge, we had to change the black one once, the others are running quite low nowadays but they will last 3-4 months at least. The original cartridges in it are: High capacity black toner (1710517-005) costs £75.71 High capacity cian toner (1710517-008) costs £119.52 High capacity magenta toner (1710517-007) costs £119.52 High capacity yellow toner (1710517-006) costs £119.52 Drum cartridge (1710520-001) costs £124.52 (it is for 45,000 pages at 5% coverage)
There are normal capacity cartridges as well. While the high capacity cartridges are for 4,500 pages at 5% coverage the normal capacity cartridges are for 1,500 pages at the same coverage. So it is worth buying the high capacity one. To persuade you I enclose the prices of the normal capacity toners as well. Normal capacity cian toner (1710517-004) costs £68.85 Normal capacity magenta toner (1710517-003) costs £67.66 Normal capacity yellow toner (1710517-002) costs £70.01
The prices are from www.tonergiant.co.uk but there are a lot of sites where you can find toners. They keep reproduced cartridges as well for lower prices naturally. We insisted to the brand, so we paid 124.52 pounds for the drum kit. There is a value pack for the cian, magenta and yellow cartridge but we won’t buy that one as the colours don’t run low at the same time and in our case there can be almost a year difference between the replacement dates, so I wouldn’t like to store my money in cartridge and store the cartridge in our house for months.
Size
Sometimes it is the most important factor, so I measured it: Width: 35 cm (needs further 20 cm for the paper supply) Length: 49 cm Height: 40 cm
It is quite heavy as it is a compact machine, it’s 27.8 kg.
Features
Media type: plain and thick paper, transparencies, envelopes, and glossy media Media Size Maximum: Legal (8.5 in x 14 in), A4 (8.25 in x 11.7 in) Printer Resolution Horizontal in Black and White: 9600 Dots Per Inch Resolution Vertical in Black and White: 600 Dots Per Inch Printer Resolution Horizontal Max in Colour: 9600 Dots Per Inch Printer Resolution Vertical Max in Colour: 600 Dots Per Inch Hardware Platform: PC, Mac RAM Memory Size: 128 MB Printer Technology: Laser Printer Output: Colour Connectivity Technology: Wired Maximum print speed (Black and White): 18 Maximum print speed (colour): 4 Networking Feature: Print server Printer Interface: Parallel, USB, Ethernet 10/100Base-TX
Advantages
- Easy and cheap to maintain, reliable: As I’m not an IT expert, I won’t try to write about the installation or troubleshooting of this printer but write my own opinion as a normal user. I have quite good computer literacy but I don’t really like to assemble computers. After 4 years of usage we had no problems with the printer. I had to change the drum cartridge once. Naturally it became empty while my husband was in USA for a month. But it was really easy, even I could change it. :) - Works well with photo paper (I used with photo paper thicker than normal paper 2-3 times). I printed a lot of photos for the family about our kids and I used thick paper, naturally I had to setup it. The setup menu is easy and user friendly. - Not so loud: when I turn it on it calibrates and that is quite noisy but afterwards it is okay, my kids slept in the next room and I could print without waking them. - Prints quickly: naturally it depends on the file’s size, but a normal document comes out quickly. For large photos (5-7 MB) you have to wait a few seconds. - Beautiful, vivid colours: I like that even after four years prints clearly, no spots here and there and has really beautiful colours. We printed our invitation card for our wedding on it and it was really personal and nice.
Disadvantages
As I mentioned I write about the disadvantages I faced during the last 4 years. There are only two of them. - The display is hardly visible. It has a digital display where there are information about the process, there is a menu, etc. The letters are so pale that I can hardly read them. Daytime it’s quite okay but in the evening… As we found the light of this display cannot be changed. - After 4 years of regular use the paper jams are quite regular too. It is easy to get the paper out, even I can manage it, but it is disturbing. Probably we should clean it inside or replace a part of it. (We have moved recently into larger house and this is not an urgent task on our “to do list”.)
Sum up
I am content with this printer and I recommend it to those who use it for printing letters or documents with charts, tables, etc. If you want to print photos regularly, I can’t recommend it so bravely. The charts are printed beautifully only the photos are not so good. I would rate the photo printing quality 7/10. Probably the photo paper wasn’t suitable for the printer, I don’t know but I wasn’t fully satisfied with it. For more details see its online manual: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/media/i3d/01/A/man-migrate/MANUAL000032193.pdf
Advantages: Easy install, great interface options, very fast black output Disadvantages: colour output very, very slow at A4 size
Ok, so laser printers are more expensive than inkjets. BUT; when you look at the saving that can be made on consumables it starts to be a bit of a no brainer as to which you buy!
this printer cost me a little over £200 delivered, which was a great deal, they are usually around the £250+ area but still a good deal at that.
It's got a pretty strange layout, that whilst totally functional is not that pretty, it's got a sort of front-side face, which ... ...on, and a back panel which is just plain, but the other two 'ends' leave you wondering which way round your supposed to put the printer, the paper sits in an open feeder, and bit like a manual feeder only for lots of sheets, on one side, which also has the power and interface connection on, so if you want to be able to replace paper you have to see a big sheet of steel with the connection sticking out? minolta dropped the ball a bit there.
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owenhurrell234 06.07.2005
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Manufacturer's product description
If good things come in small packages, then the Magicolor 2350 has great things to offer. This color laser printer is smaller than many computer monitors making it a perfect fit when space is at a premium. Yet despite its modest size the Magicolor 2350 makes no compromises with performance and features. The Magicolor 2350 prints 4 full color or 17 black and white pages per minute with a choice between con-tone laser print quality for reproduction of scanned images or impressive 1200 x 1200 dpi for crisp business documents. The Crown X printer operating system provides standard network, parallel and USB interfaces, PCL and postscript emulations to ensure compatibility with all mainstream computer platforms and a complete range of printer management tools to help you easily get the most from the printer. All of this combined with a duty cycle of 35, 000 pages per month makes the Magicolor 2350 ideal for sharing in the office. The Magicolor 2350 is amongst the most feature rich color laser printers available and is offered at a price that should leave everybody asking, why they are still buying black and white or inkjet printers. Combined with the speed, quality and low cost per page which laser printing offers, the Magicolor 2350 is a great choice for small workgroups and personal business users who want to add more color to their work. The Magicolor 2350 uses polymer toner to give the best print quality. The new technology used to make polymer toner allows greater control over the particle size of the toner, better control over color and a cleaner printing process. This results in better quality prints and a more reliable printer.
