It was designed following the compact structure, while being equipped with reliable options such as the top scanner unit which can be easily accessed, the 100-sheet output tray that can hold simple paper, or envelopes or other types of papers, or the duplexing option. The costs of paper are not very cheap; a 500-sheet input tray can range between $299 and $399.

The Minolta Magicolor 2590MF printer was created for easy use, and it was provided with easy access buttons. However, the buttons were not very well organized on the printer, so that you might find it difficult to find the right button from a first glance. The control panel has an LCD display that shows the text on a monochrome display. However, the text on the LCD screen can be cryptic. The cartridges can be easily replaced, after you pressed a button from the control panel. To finish the cartridge replacement you must also lift the scanner and a panel placed at the top of it. After that has been done, you will find the cartridge carousel, which can be wriggled.

You can buy the Minolta Magicolor 2590MF printer together with a pre-4500-page black cartridge, which will cost around $101. The 1500-page color cartridges that also come together with the package cost a bit more than usual, approximately $83 each.

Specifications:
-Printer Type: All-In-One printer;
-Technology: Color Laser;
-Black Print Speed: 20 pages per minute;
- Color Print Speed: 5 pages per minute;
-Max Resolution (BW): 2400 x 600 dpi;
-Max Resolution (Color): 2400 x 600 dpi;
-Total Media Capacity: 200 Sheets;
-Connectivity Technology: USB 2.0;
- Duplex printout: Optional;
-Direct Printing Capability: Print Photos Without a PC;
- Monthly Duty Volume: 35,000 Pages;
-First Page Out Time: 22 Seconds;
-Media Type: Cards, Envelopes, Glossy Paper, Labels, Plain Paper, Postcard, Transparancies, Recycled Paper;
-Media Path Type: Curved;

- Copying Speed (Black): 20 pages per minute;
-Copy Speed (Color): 5 pages per minute;
-Zoom  Range, Reduction: 50 %;
- Zoom  Range, Enlargement: 200 %;
- Scanner Type: Sheetfed Scanner;
-Scanner Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi;
-Scanner Speed: 23 Second;
-  Fax Speed: 33600 bps;
- Fax Features Supported: Speed Dial;
-Modem Type: Fax/Modem;
- Networking Type: Network Adapter;
-Data Link Protocols: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Hi-Speed USB;
-Installed RAM: 128 MB;
- Platform: PC;
-Operating System: Apple MacOS x 10.2, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple MacOS X;
-Width: 20.79 in.;
-Depth: 18.7 in.;
-Height: 20.91 in.;
- Weight: 61.73 lb.;
-Special Features: Borderless Printing;
-Family Line: Konica Minolta Magicolor.

Although it measures 10.9 by 15.6 by 15 inches, it does not have a very boxy appearance, and it is smaller than other color printers of its class. These features make the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer more feasible and suitable for offices and homes. The paper tray can hold up to 200 sheets, which is better than the Samsung CLP-315capcity of 150 sheets. The difference of 50 pages can be an important advantage for users who usually need to print more documents. If the printer is used for personal purposes, the 200 sheet capacity at an affordable price can be more than satisfying.

Furthermore, the setting up of the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer can be done in few easy steps. First of all, you need to take off the packing components, then you can load the pages, and after that you will plug in the power cord and the USB wire. After these steps have been made, you will run the automatic software installation already saved on the disk. The removal and reinsertion of the cartridges will not be necessary, because they were already placed inside the printer. You will also benefit from already included drivers for Vista (32- and 64- bits) operation systems, Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003.

The printing is made with the help of a four-pass color engine, that is the color passes through four types of processes. The speed of printing reaches 20 pages per minute for black and white versions, and 5 pages per minute for the colored ones. These speed surpass the average levels of other printers from the same category as the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer is.

This printer also offers very good graphics quality, which is required especially by the business-purpose documents. The same problem shared by other printers as well, is that the thin lines tend to disappear in time, but this can be offset by the use of more contoured lines.

The photos will have a good quality, which can be an advantage for photos used in newsletters and Web pages. There are only two problems with the photo prints, one is the posterization (the colors change rapidly instead of progressively), and the other is the unrealistic color shading (colors can appear orange instead of red, or blue instead of green).

The costs for printing range from 2.9 cent per black and white pages, while the color ones have a price of 16.6 cents per page. These prices are not very high, according to other printers similar to the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer.

There are many advantages offered by the Konica Minolta magicolor 7450 II grafx, among them are the excellent color projections that also have an improved consistency. The image density control which is the maintenance of colors accuracy throughout the long printing runs is ensured by the Automatic Image Density Control (eAIDC), a process that is very important in printing.

The Macintosh, PC or other mediums benefit from an excellent performance thanks to the pro-quality color tools, multi-platform compatibility and emulation profiles.The Konica Minolta magicolor 7450 II grafx also has a 9600 x 600 photorealistic resolution, PANTONE color tables and ICC based color matching, in order to provide high quality graphics that are essential to business color printing.

Specifications:

-Print Speed (Letter): black: up to 24 ppm, color: up to 24 ppm;

- First Page Out: as fast as 12 seconds;

- Resolution: 9600 x 600 dpi – class Photo ART contone;

-Memory, Standard: 768 MB;

-Memory, Maximum: 1024 MB;

-Processor: Power PC7447A, 733 MHz G4;

-Hard Disk: Standard 40 GB;

-Paper Handling, Standard: 100-sheet manual feed tray, 250-sheet multipurpose tray, 350-sheet output tray;

-Duty Cycle: up to 120,000 prints per month;

-Media Sizes Supported: manual feed tray: same as multipurpose cassette plus banner sizes (W) 3.55″ – 12.25″ (90 – 311 mm), (L) 5.50″ – 47.24″ (140 – 1200 mm) multipurpose tray: letter, legal, ledger, 12″ x 18″, 4″ x 6″, executive, statement, folio, SP Folio, Foolscap, UK Quarto, Letter Plus, Govt. Letter, Govt. Legal, A3, A4, A5, A6, B4, B5, B5 (ISO), B6, D8K, 16K, Kai 8, Kai 16, Kai 32, Japanese Postcard, Double Postcard; Monarch, Com 10, DL, C6, C5, Chou 3, Chou 4, You 0, You 2, You 4, You 6, 16K Envelopes; Custom sizes (W) 3.54″ – 12.25″ (90 – 311 mm), (L) 5.5″ – 18″ (139 – 457 mm), Additional 500-Sheet Lower Input Feeders: Letter, Legal, Ledger, Statement, Govt. Letter, Govt. Legal, A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, D8K, Kai 16 Automatic Duplexer: Letter, Legal, Ledger, 12″ x 18″, Executive, Statement, Folio, SP Folio, Foolscap, UK Quarto, Letter Plus, Govt. Letter, Automatic Duplexer: Letter, Legal, Ledger, 12″ x 18″, Executive, Statement, Folio, SP Folio, Foolscap, UK Quarto, Letter Plus, Govt. Letter, Govt. Legal, A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, D8K, 16K, Kai 8, Kai 16; Custom sizes (W) 3.54″ – 12.25″ (90 – 311 mm), (L) 5.5″ – 18″ (139 – 457 mm);

- Size (W x D x H): 25.5″ x 23.6″ x 18.7″.

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It has a speed of 25 pages printed per minute for both color and B&W, which is very fast.

The Konica Minolta Bizhub C250 Color Printer suits well in a large or mid-sized business environment, as well as in a company’s department or small offices and workgroups. It also saves a lot of space and time, having been equipped with all-in-one print, copy and scan features. With the Emperon™ Print System you now have full control over the printing possibilities with the help of an uncomplicated interface.

The Konica Minolta Bizhub C250 Color Printer also offers improved security functions, the first page out doesn’t take much time, various modular options and smaller footprint. The speed of the ouput is 25 ppm, while the first copy’s speed reaches 8.4 seconds if it is monochrome (black and white), and 11.7 seconds if the output is colored. Monthly, the printer can keep up with 75,000 pages.

The exceptional quality of the color is assured by the Simitri® Color Polymerizer Toner and the C250 technology which offers a clearer printed text and wonderful halftone reproduction, as well as accurately projected colors.

The scans now have more scanning options such as the Scan-to-Email, Scan-to-SMB (Scan-to-Desktop), Scan-to-FTP, Scan-to-HDD (Scan-to-User Box) and TWAIN scan.

The paper storage is better as well; it can store up to 140 lb. index stock, you can also print on coated paper, and have originals of 11? × 17? or 12? × 18? outputs.

The user box ensures storing, sharing, and provides access to 1,000 mailboxes, backed up by a 40 GB hard drive.

There other important options that are meant to ease your business’s evolution, such as the fax and finishing options: Auto Document Feeder, Super G3 Analog Fax, Booklet and Staple Finishers and other.

Specifications:

-Printer Type: All-In-One Printer;

-Output Type: Color Printer;

-Technology (Detailed): Electrophotographic Laser;

-Black Print Speed: 25 ppm;

-Color Print Speed: 25 ppm;

-Max Resolution (BW): 1800 x 600 dpi;

-Total Media Capacity: 850 Sheets;

-Duplex Printout: Optional;

-Form Factor: Stationary;

-Monthly Duty Cycle: 50,000 – 99,999 (Medium Workgroup);

-Monthly Duty Volume: 75,000 Pages;

-Language Simulation: Adobe PostScript 3 • PCL 5C • PCL 6;

-Copying Speed (Black): 25 ppm;

-Copy Speed (Color): 25 ppk;

-Zoom Range, Reduction: 25 %;

-Zoom Range, Enlargement: 400 %;

-Scanner Type: Sheetfed Scanner;

-Scanner Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi;

-Networking Type: 10/100BaseTx;

-Data Link Protocols: Ethernet • Fast Ethernet;

-Internal Hard Drive Size: 40960 MB;

-Max Memory: 512 MB;

-Processor: PowerPC;

- Processor Speed: 466 MHz;

-Operating System: Apple MacOS 9 • Microsoft Windows 2000 • Microsoft Windows 98 • Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition • Microsoft Windows NT • UNIX • Microsoft Windows XP Home • Apple MacOS X • Microsoft Windows 2003.

This laser printer was created to satisfy users that need to print a lot of qualitative text-papers and other monochrome materials as well. As other printers of its class, the Konica Minolta Pagepro 4650 Laser Printer was equipped with inexpensive toners, that are available to buy in a all the sizes, speeds, and prices you wish for. The great advantage of using a monochrome laser printer like this one is that of reliability and excellent text printing capabilities. However, its limits are the printing of simple graphics, and that is about it; but we ought to mention that these limited categories of printings will have an impressive quality.

The technology used by monochrome laser printers is that of laser rotating mirrors, which is meant to project the image in an indirect way onto a photo conducting drum; at the same time, the ink is directed to the forming image, and this ink is dissolved at high temperatures so as to hand over the image to the surface of the page. It is not a complicated or sophisticated technology, but it works rapidly and safe, offering qualitative texts and images.

The Konica Minolta Pagepro 4650 Laser Printer is compatible with the Macintosh and different Apple systems that are used by many computers. Also, it is compatible with the Microsoft Windows Operating System, with which means that it was equipped with drivers and connection types that were created specially for Windows. The drivers and connection types are also available in the case of an Apple system use. Further more, it is also compatible with Linux OS.

It is known that the monochrome printers don’t have such an impressive speed quality, and the Konica Minolta Pagepro 4650 Laser Printer is no exception from this rule either. To increase the speed of one printer, there is the possibility to print the documents in draft mode, which is faster than default mode, but not too fast either. Other methods to increase the printing speed are the omitting of the first page out, or the sending of material raw data directly to the printer, which methods are meant to speed up the process of printing.

You are also connected to Ethernet through the Konica Minolta Pagepro 4650 Laser Printer, an option being standard for networking inside the frame of an office medium. The Ethernet is of various categories, and all of them offer enough bandwidth, which creates more flexibility and possible matches with your needs.

Other Specifications:

-Interface Type:  1 x USB 1.1 – USB, 1 x USB 2.0 – USB, 1 x IEEE 1284 – Parallel, 1 x RJ-45 – Network;

-Max Print Speed: 36 ppm;

-Manufacturer: Konica Minolta;

- Printer Type: Monochrome Laser Printer;

-Black & White Horizontal Resolution: 1200 dpi;

-Black & White Vertical Resolution: 1200 dpi;

-Black & White Print Speed: 36 ppm;

-Installed Memory: 128 MB;

- Processor Speed: 500 MHz;

-Monthly Duty Cycle: 150000 pages per month.

The design of the Konica 7020 Workgroup Document System kept a classical and unitary appearance, while its dimensions will not require much space either. However, even if it is smaller than other machines of this type, it offers much more than a similar device would.

The Konica 7020 Workgroup Document System has a better performance than other small dimension systems, which you wouldn’t expect to see in such a small machine. Therefore, even if its main purpose is to be used in smaller offices and homes, it can be placed in growing offices as well. Another advantage is given by the modular design, which creates space for more options directly determined by the users’ needs. It also has more than enough space for documents, drawer bases, print controllers and finisher options, in order to fulfill all the required tasks. There is a split document feeder (DF-314) that allows you to copy books on a platen cover.

You can choose an optional Windows Controller (IP-011), which will be useful for print control and for finding less expansive printing solutions and diagnose possible problems.

There are two sorting bins for partitioning incoming fax, printed material and copies (Stapling/Sorting Finisher_FS-107).

Another option is the IP-421 Controller, which provides control for more demanding applications. It ensures periodical upgrades that are needed according to the Konica’s New Open Architecture technology.

There is also a Super G3 Fax Kit, which ensures two times faster G3 faxes than other machines, including options for more memory space, and options for broadcasting and faxing.<

Other Specs:

- Configuration: Console with stationary platen;

- Speed: 20 cpm (8 1/2″ x 11″); 11 cpm (11″ x 17″);

-Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi;

-Standard Memory/Maximum Memory: 32 MB/288 MB;

- Continuous Copying: 1-999;

-Maximum Original Size: 11″ x 17″;

-Standard Input Capacity: 2 x 500 Sheets (universal), Multi by-pass – 50 Sheets;

-Min.– Max. Paper Size: 5.5″ x 8.5″ / 11″ x 17″;

-Min.– Max. Paper Weights: 16-32 lbs;

-Total Finisher Capacity: 1,100 Sheets;

-Features: Job Memory, OHP Interleave, Image Shift, Frame/Fold Erasure, EKC, APS, AMS, ATS, Book Copy, Stamp/Watermark;

-Printer Type: Optional Print Controller (IP-011);

-Printer Speed: 20 ppm;

- Printer Memory: 16 MB standard/80 MB Max;

- Network Card: KN-304 – 10/100 BaseT;

-Fax Specifications: 2 MB, Max. 8 MB Standard Memory, 200 x 200 dpi/400 x 400 dpi Resolution, 33.6 Kbps Modem speed, 20 One Touch keys;

-Dimensions: 159 lbs weight, 17 W x 23.4 D x 34.4 H.

As dimensions, you can’t really complain about the Magicolor 5440 DL. It measures 45.5 x 52 x 44 cm and weighs 31 kg, which is a pretty decent size for a color laser printer. In fact, it will be a while till manufacturers actually give a lot of thought to the size of an office color laser printer. Reason for this is simple, you buy it, you set a corner for it, and you don’t move it because you won’t really need to. Its size also allows for a higher paper capacity.

It comes with a 500 page paper tray and a 100 sheet manual tray. If you’re looking for even more, optional 500 sheet drawers are available for purchase and you can add two more for a total capacity of 1600. The duplexer is also optional and can be purchased for around $400.

You’ll get a backlit 16 by 2 line display that will show you status messages and work for indicating ink level. You’ll also get a well-structured control menu and easy navigation. For navigation you’ll be using the four directional buttons that have a confirm button right in between. You’ll also find a small orange button for canceling.

Its printing speeds are more than satisfactory, with 27 pages per minute for both color and black and white. The USB and Ethernet ports on the back will also allow you to set the printer up for your network. One minor problem the Magicolor 5440 DL has is that setting it up, unboxing it and getting it to work is a long and tedious process. You will be provided with an installation guide which a large number of steps to follow.

Text quality (both color and mono) is sharp and very clear. Image quality is not brilliant but will do for an office. Generally it has problems in the contrast/saturation area, so it won’t do such a good job in an office where users need to print high-resolution imagery.

You’ll be able to print directly from a PictBridge compatible digital camera, but will have to wait what seems like a lifetime for a photo to actually print at letter size on photo paper. Still, it remains a great printer for an office that needs to handle a lot of paperwork in either color or black or white. You might also end up paying more upfront (since this Konica Minolta Magicolor printer is on the rather expensive side of the offering) but it will be forth it when you discover that keeping it working and in top shape doesn’t require much money at all.

Like the other two AIOs in this category—the Epson AcuLaser CX11NF and Brother MFC-9420CN—the 2480MF is a hefty beast, measuring 20.9 by 23.1 by 18.7 inches (HWD) and weighing in at 70.4 pounds. Its large size makes it most appropriate for a small office, but I can see the AIO squeezing into a home office, if you have the space available.

Setup of the 2480MF is marginally easier than that of most color laser AIOs or printers because you don’t have to remove the toner cartridges and then reinsert them. Just remove the tape and shipping restraints from the unit, unlock the scanner, snap on the plastic tray extensions, connect the power cord and network cable (assuming you’re connecting to a network), and run the automated setup routine. My one complaint is with the setup instructions, which consist of line drawings without text, an approach that can be hard to decipher.

The 2480MF‘s print-engine rating is only 20 pages per minute for monochrome and 5 ppm for color, which translates into predictably slower performance than the Epson’s and Brother’s AIOs, since both have faster ratings. On our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic’s hardware and software), the 2480MF’s total time was 21 minutes 5 seconds, compared with 18:30 for the Epson CX11NF and 15:55 for the Brother MFC-9420CN. The speed is best described as tolerable, but no match for the competition.

During testing, text was uniformly well formed and highly readable at 4 points when printing commonly used business fonts, including Times New Roman and Arial. Still, the AIO had trouble with one hard-to-print font that uses a thick stroke. This kind of text was readable enough at 12 points, but often some characters were so close together that I literally needed a jeweler’s loupe to confirm there was any space between them.

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