Advantages: Vivid colours, reliable, prints beautifully Disadvantages: Photo printing quality is only 7/10 in my rating
We bought our Konika MinoltaMagicolor 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 ...
Advantages: Great print quality Disadvantages: Slow, expensive
As with most ICT departments in schools we have the need for occasioanl colour laser printing and to this end we purchased a Magicolor 2450. The initial purchase price was reasonable (£450 ish) and the feature list impressed us.
The Product
The printer itself has a fairly small footprint it is about 19 inches wide, 16 inches deep and 18 inches high. The unit is predominatly a greyish cream colour with a dark blue top section. It looks quite good on a desk.
The Features
Well it is a colour laser printer, print quality is excellent. The paper tray is large holding approx 100 sheets which eliminates the constant refilling that so many inkjets suffer from. The printer has a network interface so that it can be easily shared as well as the standard parallel and USB conneections.
Consumables
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Advantages: Quality prints, quiet Disadvantages: A little expensive to run
The Magicolor 2550 is positioned as one of KonicaMinolta's entry level colour laser printers, well almost entry level, as it offers some very nice features without taking the price of the device too high.
The specification on offer from this full colour model is a cracking 20ppm (pages per minute) in monochrome and 5ppm in full colour. The native resolution is 600dpi with a x4 dithering method which beefs this up to an effective 2,400dpi. The model on review here is the standard model, which has 128MB of memory, is network ready and offers Postscript 3 printer language in addition to PCL6 and PDF support.
The 2550DN which is the next model up adds a built-in duplexer and has 256MB of memory, it also adds Pictbridge support for direct connection of a compatible digital camera. Both models are capable of handling a monthly duty cycle ...
ANSI A (Letter) (216 x 279 mm), Legal (216 x 356 mm), Executive (184 x 267 mm), A4 (210 x 297 mm), A5 (148 x 210 mm), B5 (176 x 250 mm), A3 (297 x 420 mm), B4 (250 x 353 mm), A6 (105 x 148 mm), ANSI B (Ledger) (279 x 432 mm), Folio (216 x 330 mm), Statement (139.7 x 215.9 mm), B6 (125 x 176 mm), Foolscap (343 x 432 mm), 297 x 1200 mm, 311 x 457 mm
Envelope Sizes
International DL (110 x 220 mm), International C6 (114 x 162 mm), Com-10 (105 x 241 mm), International C5 (162 x 229 mm), Monarch (98.4 x 190.5 mm), Japanese postcard (100 x 148 mm), Japanese Postcard Double (148 x 200 mm)
Media Weight
256 g/m2
Total Media Capacity
350 sheets
Media Feeder(s)
1 x autoload - 250 sheets - 311 x 457 mm
1 x autoload - 100 sheets
Output Trays Capacity
350 sheets
Duty cycle
Monthly Duty Cycle
120000 impressions
Networking
Networking
Print server
Connectivity Technology
Wired
Data Link Protocol
Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Network / Transport Protocol
TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI/NetBIOS
Remote Management Protocol
SNMP, IPP, HTTP, HTTPS
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slots Total (Free)
1 ( 1 ) x CompactFlash Card
Connections
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45
1 x toner cartridge ( magenta ) - up to 3000 pages
1 x toner cartridge ( yellow ) - up to 3000 pages
Works with Windows Vista
Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.
Compliant Standards
FCC Class B certified, CE, UL, VCCI, C-Tick, cUL, DOC
Power
Power Device
Power supply - internal
Voltage Required
AC 230V
Frequency Required
50/60 Hz
Power Consumption Operational
700 Watt
Power Consumption Stand by / Sleep
28 Watt
Software / system requirements
OS Required
SuSE Linux 8.2, Red Hat Linux 9, Novell NetWare 4.0 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 / NT4.0, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition / Windows ME, Novell NetWare 6, Novell NetWare 5.0 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.2 or later, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Apple MacOS 9.1.x
Environmental standards
EPA Energy Star Compliant
Yes
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature
10 °C
Max Operating Temperature
35 °C
Humidity Range Operating
15 - 85%
Sound Emission (Idle)
40 dB
Sound Emission (Operating)
52 dB
Manufacturer's product description
If you're looking for an office printing solution that offers the ultimate in quality, power, speed and versatility, you've found it. It's the Magicolor 7450 - Konica Minolta's top of the range printer. Equally at home with high-volume print runs as it is with high coverage/low volume graphical output, it speeds through any print job in no time. With flexible media handling and high-yield consumables keeping user interaction to a minimum, this is a printer that meets the demands of users right across the board.
