Thursday, June 6, 2013
Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W
I’m a journalist, so when I need something, it’s normally right now. Time is important to me as my life revolves around deadlines. That’s one of the reasons I bought the Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W.
It’s a tiny thing that produces good quality mono prints at 15 pages per minute. It’s only something like 15 inches wide, by 12 deep and the same high, and weighs 17 pounds. There are personal desktops that are bigger than that. For such a small footprint is packs quite a bit of punch.
This is currently the fastest printer in its class, which is why I chose it. The print quality is good enough for me to be able to print then submit straight to an editor images and all. Lasers often tend to fail when printing photos or images, but the PagePro 1350W holds its own. The grayscale is well utilized, with the 256 available shades simulating color well. It makes it easier to predict what the published piece will look like in a paper, which saves me a lot of time. Text quality is crisp and clear whatever size point I use. Ink fill is even if I use headline fonts, and details fine enough when using superscript.
The printer can be set up using either USB or network. I’m sure it could handle workgroups or something if you added a print server. The 8Mb buffer seems to cope well enough, even if I sent it a larger print job occasionally. The other great thing about this printer is that it’s quiet. If I’m on the phone doing an interview or something I can hardly hear it when it’s churning out my proofs. You can hear the print engine if it’s quiet and nothing else is going on, but apart from that it’s hardly noticeable.
Build quality seems sound, I haven’t had any problems with it anyway. The paper drawer is at the front near the bottom, and the paper is fed through in a “C” shape to end up on the top. The paper tray is said to be able to hold 100 sheets, but mine get curled up after about 15. Something to watch if you printer larger jobs.
If you’re looking for a good, reliable printer that won’t take up much room then the PagePro 1350W will do. It’s quiet, reliable and produces prints of sufficient quality for almost all uses. I heartily recommend it.
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It’s a tiny thing that produces good quality mono prints at 15 pages per minute. It’s only something like 15 inches wide, by 12 deep and the same high, and weighs 17 pounds. There are personal desktops that are bigger than that. For such a small footprint is packs quite a bit of punch.
This is currently the fastest printer in its class, which is why I chose it. The print quality is good enough for me to be able to print then submit straight to an editor images and all. Lasers often tend to fail when printing photos or images, but the PagePro 1350W holds its own. The grayscale is well utilized, with the 256 available shades simulating color well. It makes it easier to predict what the published piece will look like in a paper, which saves me a lot of time. Text quality is crisp and clear whatever size point I use. Ink fill is even if I use headline fonts, and details fine enough when using superscript.
The printer can be set up using either USB or network. I’m sure it could handle workgroups or something if you added a print server. The 8Mb buffer seems to cope well enough, even if I sent it a larger print job occasionally. The other great thing about this printer is that it’s quiet. If I’m on the phone doing an interview or something I can hardly hear it when it’s churning out my proofs. You can hear the print engine if it’s quiet and nothing else is going on, but apart from that it’s hardly noticeable.
Build quality seems sound, I haven’t had any problems with it anyway. The paper drawer is at the front near the bottom, and the paper is fed through in a “C” shape to end up on the top. The paper tray is said to be able to hold 100 sheets, but mine get curled up after about 15. Something to watch if you printer larger jobs.
If you’re looking for a good, reliable printer that won’t take up much room then the PagePro 1350W will do. It’s quiet, reliable and produces prints of sufficient quality for almost all uses. I heartily recommend it.
Lexmark C780
Who wants slow printers with poor resolution even if you have to pay less upfront? It never hurts to pay more and get great resolution and quality with your color prints without clogging the printing jobs queue at your busy workplace. It was this that prompted me to buy the Lexmark C780 laser color printer for my office where we have to print hundreds of pages every day, not to mention the high-quality photos and images that this printer produces.
The Lexmark C780 laser printer is one of the newer and more sophisticated machines being manufactured by the company. The printer gives a resolution of 1200 x 1200 dots per inch and has an extendable memory chip of up to 768Mb. The advertised speed is 29 pages per minute for color prints and 33 pages per minute for black and white ones. However we have experienced it to be a little slower than that, but that’s the case with most of the other models of laser printers. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the speed.
The printer is easy to install and there are no complications with the software. I have not experienced any problems so far. Unlike the older models fold by Lexmark, the C780 comes with a built in Ethernet port. I find it a really handy option as we have the printer connected to a network and most employees can use it, and they have to.
I find a number of other useful features in this model that I did not get with some of my older printers. The sheet capacity is 600 in the front tray, saving us the hassle of loading paper too frequently. I can also feed different types and sizes of paper other than the standard pages used for printing such as envelopes, transparencies, etc. The overall quality of color printing is simply superb, and I am pretty satisfied with the high quality photos that we have to print sometimes at our office. I am also free of the worry of changing toners as they last for a fair period of time. The printer is also compatible for with most of the usual operating systems that we have installed in PC’s these days.
I recommend the Lexmark C780 laser printer for offices and workplaces where there is a heavy load of printing work done. The color printing quality of C780 also makes it a good choice for users who have to print photos and other high quality images.
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The Lexmark C780 laser printer is one of the newer and more sophisticated machines being manufactured by the company. The printer gives a resolution of 1200 x 1200 dots per inch and has an extendable memory chip of up to 768Mb. The advertised speed is 29 pages per minute for color prints and 33 pages per minute for black and white ones. However we have experienced it to be a little slower than that, but that’s the case with most of the other models of laser printers. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the speed.
The printer is easy to install and there are no complications with the software. I have not experienced any problems so far. Unlike the older models fold by Lexmark, the C780 comes with a built in Ethernet port. I find it a really handy option as we have the printer connected to a network and most employees can use it, and they have to.
I find a number of other useful features in this model that I did not get with some of my older printers. The sheet capacity is 600 in the front tray, saving us the hassle of loading paper too frequently. I can also feed different types and sizes of paper other than the standard pages used for printing such as envelopes, transparencies, etc. The overall quality of color printing is simply superb, and I am pretty satisfied with the high quality photos that we have to print sometimes at our office. I am also free of the worry of changing toners as they last for a fair period of time. The printer is also compatible for with most of the usual operating systems that we have installed in PC’s these days.
I recommend the Lexmark C780 laser printer for offices and workplaces where there is a heavy load of printing work done. The color printing quality of C780 also makes it a good choice for users who have to print photos and other high quality images.
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