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new printer- Magicolor 2450 - opinions
I noticed Minolta have released a new printer, the magicolor 2450.
Does anyone have any opinions or seen any print samples from this printer ? |
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I noticed Minolta have released a new printer, the magicolor 2450. Does anyone have any opinions or seen any print samples from this printer ? IMNSHO, I wouldn't bother with any of the lower end KMs - the quality is questionable (and, yes, I've seen samples) and the running costs are ridiculous (unless you refill, which is quite tricky, as the screws in the tanks are rather small and quite easy to lose - at least they are on my aunt's 2300). £400 is very low end for a colour laser - heck I've got an inkjet which cost more than that! And, like low-end inkjets, a set of OEM tanks will, very easily set you back more than the unit (they're £120 for each colour and £100 for the black). You need to look at the total cost of ownership (TCO). They state 4,500 pages per tank at 5% coverage. As that's not realistic (who prints on 5% of a page?) you need to mark it up - I usually say 75% as a high end figure. If you're printing text then that works out at just 300 pages from a black tank, or 33p a page. Compare this with my Canon - I reckon I could get at least 500 pages at 75% from a black tank and I can buy OEM tanks at £5 each. You can work that out. IOW, I could print 33 pages for the cost of printing one from the MC2400. Colour: - Same deal, 4,500 pages at 5%, or 300 at 75%. That's 40p a page, but you have to multiply that by three (because, obviously, there are three colours) - that's a whopping £1.20 per page! My Pixma, OTOH, has colours which cost £35 for 7 and I reckon that, if I am just printing diagrams, webpages, graphics, but not photos (because, let's face it, if you wanted a laser to print decent photos, you'd be spending a damned sight more than £400. The best photos I've ever seen from a laser were from the Phaser 7750 - and that costs the better part of £8,000) - if I said I could get 500 again (that's probably being optimistic) but let's just say for sake of argument I could, that's just 7p a page. And that's not forgetting the drum cartridge will will last just 3,000 pages at 75% and will set you back between £120 and £150, depending on where you buy it. So, by the time the drum needs replacing you could have spent a whopping £4,600 on replacement cartridges! Factor in the cost of the printer in the first place and you could have bought a Phaser 6500 which would have vastly superior output and cost considerably less to run. That's being rather over-simplistic, but you get the general idea. Lower end colour lasers will cost you a bloody fortune! |
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"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... [snip] You need to look at the total cost of ownership (TCO). They state 4,500 pages per tank at 5% coverage. As that's not realistic (who prints on 5% of a page?) you need to mark it up - I usually say 75% as a high end figure. If you printed out the typical email or other text page it would probably be less than 5% coverage. Text has surprisingly little coverage, and 5% is a reasonable figure for black coverage. Color coverage tends to be higher. Regards, Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Perspicacia Tick writes You need to look at the total cost of ownership (TCO). They state 4,500 pages per tank at 5% coverage. As that's not realistic (who prints on 5% of a page?) you need to mark it up - I usually say 75% as a high end figure. Pardon? My Xerox having done 50 odd thousand pages comes up at about 6% coverage on black pages. I had a magicolor 2200 and my usage was within about 10% of their quoted figures. -- Timothy |
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writes I noticed Minolta have released a new printer, the magicolor 2450. Does anyone have any opinions or seen any print samples from this printer ? The other post about total cost was a bit OTT. But how much printing are you looking at doing? -- Timothy |
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" wrote in message ... In message m, writes I noticed Minolta have released a new printer, the magicolor 2450. Does anyone have any opinions or seen any print samples from this printer ? The other post about total cost was a bit OTT. But how much printing are you looking at doing? I wasn't planning on doing a huge amount of printing just the prefer high quality colour output. I noticed that the dpi on this printer is different from the magicolor 2430DL, which has 2400 x 600 while this new one is using a different print engine 600 x 600 x 4 which kind of confused me. |
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" wrote in message ... In message m, writes I noticed Minolta have released a new printer, the magicolor 2450. Does anyone have any opinions or seen any print samples from this printer ? The other post about total cost was a bit OTT. But how much printing are you looking at doing? I wasn't planning on doing a huge amount of printing just the prefer high quality colour output. I noticed that the dpi on this printer is different from the magicolor 2430DL, which has 2400 x 600 while this new one is using a different print engine 600 x 600 x 4 which kind of confused me. And you think you'll get "high quality colour output" from a colour laser costing less than many inkjets?! What reality are you from, exactly?! |
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They all have an optical resolution of 600dpi. The other numbers refer
to software enhancement which supposedly improves the image quality. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to help with Minolta's printers. If you go to their website, you can upload files for them to print on any of their printers and return to you by mail, free of charge. |
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