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Solar Navigator project headquarters acquired one of
Minolta's QMS 2350 colour laser printers
featuring 128Mb of
memory as standard. From the
specification, we believed this machine was
superior to the competition: What a
joke................
Rather
extravagantly, our
machine has been fitted with a duplex accessory
and a hard drive. You would have thought
this would speed up the printing process, but
we're afraid not. The memory was also boosted to
384Mb, hoping this would improve performance -
sadly not. Not including the memory, the
bundle we ordered set our project back
£1,532.22 including VAT.
We
imagined that by opting for just about every
accessory, the machine would easily cope double sided printing of complex documents
without tying up the computer. It all
seems to have been a gigantic waste of
money. The machine has got to be the
noisiest and slowest in its class. It's
also smelly and it takes an age to warm
up. Our Brother multifunction laser, is by
contrast a gem. Fast, reliable, but sadly
only monotone. We have recently spent
an entire evening waiting for 30 copies of the
document shown below - were not kidding - a
whole evening! The glossy advertising
blurb says 4 pages per minute (4ppm) for colour
printing - it's an outrageous
misrepresentation. At this rate our 30
page print job should have taken 8 minutes tops!
Abominable
print quality - smudged and not fixed
The
Minolta would not print pre-stamped business
cards, when the toner appeared to stick to the
reverse side for some reason. We abandoned
colour card printing. A
215 scanner bed is also attached to enable
colour copying and high quality scanning of
documents and pictures, most of which find their
way onto this website. This item is fast
and silent, and we thought we'd scored here, but
then the unit sometimes failed to scan the
document's length correctly, compressing
documents up and ruining accuracy.
Brochure
promising 4 pages a minute!
AWARDS
- YOU MUST BE JOKING - CHECK THE STORY ABOVE
The
UK's most prestigious Mac awards took place on
20th November 2003 at the Sheraton, Park Lane
and Konica Minolta Printing Solutions won the
category of 'Printer of the Year' for the
magicolor 2350, beating HP and Canon. MacUser
magazine have previously reviewed the 2350,
awarding it with 4.5 mice and stating that
'Konica Minolta must have their competition
worried'. "Its crisp, high-contrast output will
please business users while design studios and
production desks will appreciate its hairline
precision and advanced colour handling."
MacUser
Printer Of The Year 2003 - More
information - We find this hard to believe!
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