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| Date Reviewed: 01/03/2005 |
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Strengths: Fast, great b/w & color quality, ink saver.
Weaknesses: Loud, paper jam if input too many papers in tray.
Summary: Pro:
1. It's fast for both b/w and color printing.
2. Great b/w & color quality.
3. Took me almost 1 year to use up the first starter black cartridge.
Con:
1. It's loud every time it's printing.
2. If you put too many papers onto the paper tray (e.g. more than 2/3 of space allowed), it will jam.
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| Date Reviewed: 06/15/2005 |
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Strengths: Photo Quality is excellent - side by side with a Canon i950 is amazing - quite comparable - perhaps not the density of the inkjet but quite nice for book printing purposes (haven't tried coated stock)
Weaknesses: It does happen to make a bit of noise - almost funny actually - (clunk, zuuuum, tink tink, wong wong, clunk...)
The driver install is dumb {as in not intelligent} (but workable) - more below.
Summary: I had read about these things being noisy, but in reality they are hilarious (if you have a sense of humor) - sounds come out of it which are just 'odd'. But hey, this thing prints! -- compared to HP color lasers the toner seems to be 'finer grained' - the result being a feel of being "in' the paper rather than 'on' it. Resulting prints look more like inkjet prints thans HP's raised super glossy 'on the paper' look. These are just nice and smooth, with oh so faint of a gloss, deep into the paper. Beautiful, actually. And for any book with photos it'll beat the inkjet hands down for costs. -- Very plesantly impressed. -- (I've tried various stock from heavy book/bond to everyday paper, natural to white, and the photos are virtually identical across the media -- haven't tried coated paper yet for a purposeful glossy magazine look.
DRIVERS -- install driver from site or disk. Choose whatever USB port you wish (USB001, USB002, etc) PlugIn the printer, let XP find it. GO to Printers (control panel) and flip the printer from one port to the next until the Minolta Status monitor says the printer exists. --- They didn't build in a 'plug-n-play' port (USB controller) search into the driver - so I'm sure if you move it to a different USB port on your computer you'd need to do this again - if your computer had multiple USB controllers on the motherboard. --- other than that it's a cinch! and works great. VERY fast if you're used to inkjets. ~4ppm color is blazing compared to the Canon i950. --- btw. I paid $270 for this puppy, at Office *@#$%, since it's and older model and the 2400 is the main push now. FInd it cheap and it's a great DEAL! (BTW, it shares fine w/XP if you have a computer on your network to serve it)
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| Date Reviewed: 01/22/2004 |
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Strengths: Fast, great print quality. Easy to use - the toner even comes inside the printer, so all you do is pull some tape.
Weaknesses: The display is a little hard to read in low light.
Summary: 2004-01-25 10:51:47 I use this with a Linksys wireless print server and it works flawlessly. Setup was super easy. Make sure to set Energy Saver higher than the default so you don't have to wait for it to warm up (I set it at 1 hour) during the day. If you need built-in wired networking, buy the 2300DL. By the way, this printer just won the PC Magazine Editor's choice in the issue I just received.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/03/2004 |
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Strengths: Exceptional print quality; Plug it in and print right out of the box; So quiet in Sleep Mode you won't even know it's on; Current $150 Rebate + Free Shipping = 1200 X 600 COLOR LASER for about $350!!
Weaknesses: Sounds like it might jump off the table when printing color pages through the multiple paper paths...But it IS a printer, not a muffler. Supplies aren't cheap, but neither are inkjet cartridges.
Summary: 2004-11-12 21:16:40 Can't issue a print command in sleep mode?? Try: File> Print. Works for me! Want a network printer? Get another model as this one is NOT advertised as network-capable. People don't do any research BEFORE buying a printer or they can't click on PRINT to print a page, so they give the printer 1 or 2 stars and "can't recommend buying this printer". Give me a break! For $350 you're going to have the BEST PRINTER you've ever had in your life! There's absolutely no comparison when printing out COLOR stock charts with this printer instead of an inkjet model. In fact, EVERYTHING you print will look like it came out of a $2,000 machine...Only you'll know how much you saved with the 2300W. Read the Rebate Form FINE PRINT - twice. You must pay a minimum $ amount for rebate to be paid, it's not valid at certain retailers, etc. Then, ignore any whiners and get this printer NOW...You won't be disappointed!
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| Date Reviewed: 03/16/2004 |
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 It does not work well with Windows XP. I can't iss ... Strengths: High quality graphic
Weaknesses: printer support for XP sucks. No customer service, pretty much.
Summary: It does not work well with Windows XP. I can't issue a print command as soon as the printer goes in energy saver mode. I called Customer service and all they made me do was uninstall and reinstall, and switch this off and that off. Horrible customer support. Also their anser base online at www.minolta-qms.com/su... sucks. I am trying for last 3 hrs to download a driver, and to no avail. I also emailed them and their answer was, "Oh, here is the way to take it off energy saver mode"...really dumb customer service people. I won't reccomend buying this printer, they have no support whatsoever, if you can't figure it out yourself.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/18/2003 |
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The company does not tell you that the 2300W WILL ...
Strengths: good color printing, inexpensive to buy
Weaknesses: noisy, USB hard to configure, intermittent problems, will not work with an external print server
Summary: The company does not tell you that the 2300W WILL NOT work with a standard Print Server (with a 25 pin to ethernet conversion). After a day of trying I called Minolta and they confirmed that the 2300W WILL NOT work with the Print Server. It seems to be disabled somehow. Very frustrating, because now I have to dedicate a PC to be on all the time to use the printer. They do not mention this in any of their literature or description. I would not have purchased it otherwise. Print quality is good, but the frustration of having to reconfigure my small network is not worth the problems. Would probably have purchased the 2300DL instead, since it comes with an integrated ethernet.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/10/2004 |
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Strengths: Fast printing, nice printing quality
Weaknesses: A little heavy for personal use, a little expensive supplies, no network support.
Summary: If you want a really nice color laser printer, this is a nice one to get. It has nice quality in both color and black printing. It's kind of hearvy and large for personal use. Thus I had assumed it had network support so I can put
it somework else instead of a place beside my computer. I still haven't figure out a good position to put it. But well, overall it's an excellent printer.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/15/2004 |
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Strengths: It works well!
Weaknesses: There is a long pause between two pages.
Summary: This is a great printer, drivers work well, no XP trouble. Prints slow with long pauses between pages, Print quality is excellent.
It is good for home or home office.
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| Date Reviewed: 05/20/2005 |
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Strengths: low cost, decent color printing, and low cost consumables
Weaknesses: Doesn't work with a print server, router/lpt combo.
Summary: You can tell from the measurements this printer sits pretty tall. Its design is a bit awkward in that you'll need 3 sides available so it cannot go in the corner. It's about 60lbs, heavy, though I was able to haul it from the store to the car and into the house without assistance. I have a router with a LPT port and was planning on hooking it up to that but this model WILL NOT work when connected to a router, only when connected directly to the computer via LPT or USB. I confirmed this by visiting their website. I was tempted to take it back but didn't feel like boxing it up and hauling it back to Staples and paying another $150 so there it sits. I've had it for about a month now and we use it as a family printer. Since all the computers have XP and are networked it works fine being shared through the computer its hooked to, though the computer has to be on.
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