The Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer can be bought at an affordable price of around $180. Even if it surpassed the accessible price of the Samsung CLP-315, it also offers very fast printing speed, and the quality of the prints is also assured. The prints made by the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1600w color laser printer have a good accuracy and business-like aspect.



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.