Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Konica Minolta BizHub C45
The Konica Minolta BizHub C451 is an exciting prospect for the medium sized workgroup. Priced to sell in a competitive market, it performs well, and offers a lot for the money.
While there are many full color laser multifunction’s on the market, they don’t come as well featured as the BizHub C451. It can handle printing, copying and scanning, and performs them all with ridiculous ease. There is also the option to add faxing to the mix for a full multifunction machine.
Connecting the device is via USB or ethernet. The USB option is the quickest to set up, but offers slower transfer speeds than ethernet. Networking the device was also straightforward but took a little longer. It was soon auto-discovered on the network once powered up, and once the drivers were installed we were good to go.
The control panel is well designed and easy to understand. There are large buttons that allow you to select printing, copying and scanning, but the full color LCD steals the show. It is one of the clearest and brightest screens we have seen. It allows you to fully control every aspect of the device from its easy to follow menu system.
The output quality is very good, with pages being produced at a rate of 45 pages per minute. The text reproduction was outstanding in our tests with very crisp edges and no jaggies to be seen. Grayscale was smooth and images was very good overall. Color printing was superb considering this is a laser. Images and photos were the highlights, both printing and copying. The color reproduction was accurate and there were no overtones, or spill anywhere.
Paper is held in a group of four drawers at the front totaling a maximum of 3650 sheets. Replacement toner cartridges can produce 40,000 pages in black and 27000 in color. Considering a black toner is on $45, that constitutes a significant saving in running costs over many other manufacturers.
For medium-sized businesses who need a hard working multifunction device the BizHub C451 is a worthy contender. It produces documents of a quality suitable for almost any use. There are enough options and cost saving reasons to consider the C451 as a long term companion in your office.
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While there are many full color laser multifunction’s on the market, they don’t come as well featured as the BizHub C451. It can handle printing, copying and scanning, and performs them all with ridiculous ease. There is also the option to add faxing to the mix for a full multifunction machine.
Connecting the device is via USB or ethernet. The USB option is the quickest to set up, but offers slower transfer speeds than ethernet. Networking the device was also straightforward but took a little longer. It was soon auto-discovered on the network once powered up, and once the drivers were installed we were good to go.
The control panel is well designed and easy to understand. There are large buttons that allow you to select printing, copying and scanning, but the full color LCD steals the show. It is one of the clearest and brightest screens we have seen. It allows you to fully control every aspect of the device from its easy to follow menu system.
The output quality is very good, with pages being produced at a rate of 45 pages per minute. The text reproduction was outstanding in our tests with very crisp edges and no jaggies to be seen. Grayscale was smooth and images was very good overall. Color printing was superb considering this is a laser. Images and photos were the highlights, both printing and copying. The color reproduction was accurate and there were no overtones, or spill anywhere.
Paper is held in a group of four drawers at the front totaling a maximum of 3650 sheets. Replacement toner cartridges can produce 40,000 pages in black and 27000 in color. Considering a black toner is on $45, that constitutes a significant saving in running costs over many other manufacturers.
For medium-sized businesses who need a hard working multifunction device the BizHub C451 is a worthy contender. It produces documents of a quality suitable for almost any use. There are enough options and cost saving reasons to consider the C451 as a long term companion in your office.
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