Konica Minolta SC-100

Advantages: Colour Print Speed, Print Quality, Network Ready, Fewer Consumables
Disadvantages: Lack of Seperate Paper Feed

...This is Konica Minolta's first "in house" manufactured Printer, and the effort required to make a good first impression certainly shows. It is sturdy looking without being too utilitarian. Photo quality is good, there is room for improvement, but this would only be required/desired if you were perhaps involved in the graphics industry. At 2400dpi though, it certainly gives detailed enough photo's. I have seen Estate Agent Particulars printed with this machine and they look very good. When you do come to print in Colour, the actual performance comes close to the 20 Colour PPM that Konica Minolta quote in their Specifications. The printer has stamina, with a duty cycle of 60K pages per month. This is quite enough for most small to medium sized offices. In my experience mostly Estate Agents and Schools purchase this Printer. The quick... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, excellent print quality
Disadvantages: Too many limitations

...The 5550 has excellent print quality and its quick. It should be, because it is sold as a high duty-cycle commercial machine suitable for networking etc. But it cannot handle glossy or thick stock in the lower paper trays, plus they have no availability for custom sizes in them either. So, you can have up to 3, 500 sheet paper trays, but you can only load them with plain A4 stock. The duplexer suffers the in the same way. The practical result of this is numerous trips to load the, rather flimsy, multi-media tray that holds only a maximum of 100 sheets. Then, if you want your beautiful photo-quality glossy brochure printed on both sides, you have to return to the printer, turn the paper over and start again. All in all a potentially great machine that suffers from poor design and lack of flexibility. Sadder still, this is a problem... Read review

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Advantages: Outstanding Quality, Reliability
Disadvantages: Use of System Resources

...Before my company purchased this bad boy we were having to use an Epson 580 to do all our colour prints, but as many people know, colour inkjets aren't meant for printing leaflets or posters in their 50's or 100's. This was the reason the boss bought one of these. We set it up on one of our office network pc's which presented the first problem. The problem wasn't that it idn't work, it was when it was turned on and printing, the spool driver on the controlling pc would jump to almost 100% cpu usage, which the user of the computer didn't appreciate. Once we had it setup on a print server it worked perfectly. Anything we printed, sometimes took anywhere between 1 minute and 10 minutes to start printing (especially large pdf's) but once going it would reel them out as quick as anything, all perfect. The printer had 4 toner... Read review

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