![]() The output tray, a flap at the printer's crown, also feels flimsy. For example, we treated the paper tray's front door gently, but a hinge broke when we flopped the tray down to accommodate legal-size paper. While adequate for a home office, the printer's shell and paper trays should be sturdier for a work space with multiple users. How did Konica Minolta squeeze four toner cartridges and other essentials into a package only 16 inches wide by 14 high and 19.5 deep? Part of the secret is its four-pass design: four toner cartridges snuggle into a spindle that rotates and delivers toner to the single imaging drum, one color at a time. At first glance, we couldn't believe that the tiny Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL was a color laser printer. Like any color laser, the 2430DL's strength is its combination of full monochrome quality with quick, basic color. You should think of the PictBridge port as an added convenience, not a sign of phenomenal graphics quality. However, while its 600dpi engine turns out prints that look fine for a color laser, it can't hold a candle to high-quality inkjets-not a surprise. Konica Minolta rates the print speed of the Magicolor 2430DL at 20ppm (pages per minute) for black-and-white and 5ppm for color-as usual, higher than the performance in CNET's tests-but the 2430DL did well against similar printers. ![]() ![]() And Konica Minolta is sending this machine into photo territory, where no color laser has gone before: it brashly popped a PictBridge port into the front of the printer so that you can plug in and print straight from a compatible digital camera. Other Ethernet-equipped color lasers cost more for example, the Dell 3100cn runs $700 and up, as does the Brother HL-2700CN. At only $500, it could accommodate a small workgroup, and it prints surprisingly quickly. ![]() The diminutive but full-featured Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL pushes the color laser price tag down to near inkjet levels. ![]()
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