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Konica Minolta MagiColor 5430DL
The Konica Minolta MagiColor 5430DL is a multifunction device from the Japanese camera specialists at Konica. As you would expect from a company with such a pedigree, the 5430DL is a solid performer that does justice to the brand.
It is a color printer, that makes easy work of just about everything you could throw at it. It’s print quality and design characteristics are designed to be attractive to the small office or workgroup and it is reviewed to reflect that.
The 5430DL is a breeze to install and configure, just unpack it and connect it, that’s about it. It can be attached by a USB, network or parallel port and includes drivers for both Windows, Linux and Mac. Toner can be added quickly and is quite cheap considering.
Adding the 5430DL to a network is slightly different to many of the other printers we have reviewed. This is a host-based printer which means it needs to be paired with a PC which will do most of the processing for it. This is just a matter of installing the software onto that PC and letting it be found on the network.
The printer produces good quality, sharp prints at a rate of 3 pages per minute for color and 3.4 for mono. While certainly not the fastest, it is perfectly acceptable. Text is where the 5430DL is at its best, being able to print at any size and produce good results each time, even at smaller points. Edges are smooth and clean, and toner is evenly spread across the larger letters.
There is a 250 sheet paper tray with the option to expand to 1250 with an extra pair of drawers that can take 500 sheets each. Replacement cartridges are easy to come by and will last an average of 6000 pages each. Changing them is simply a matter of removing a panel at the front and unclipping them from their housing. Then just replace them with new ones and recycle the empty ones. The process takes mere moments.
Overall the 5430DL is easy to use, easy to manage and easy to own. With the backing of a firm like Minolta, after-sales service should be good if you ever need it.
Konica Minolta MagiColor 5430DL
It is a color printer, that makes easy work of just about everything you could throw at it. It’s print quality and design characteristics are designed to be attractive to the small office or workgroup and it is reviewed to reflect that.
The 5430DL is a breeze to install and configure, just unpack it and connect it, that’s about it. It can be attached by a USB, network or parallel port and includes drivers for both Windows, Linux and Mac. Toner can be added quickly and is quite cheap considering.
Adding the 5430DL to a network is slightly different to many of the other printers we have reviewed. This is a host-based printer which means it needs to be paired with a PC which will do most of the processing for it. This is just a matter of installing the software onto that PC and letting it be found on the network.
The printer produces good quality, sharp prints at a rate of 3 pages per minute for color and 3.4 for mono. While certainly not the fastest, it is perfectly acceptable. Text is where the 5430DL is at its best, being able to print at any size and produce good results each time, even at smaller points. Edges are smooth and clean, and toner is evenly spread across the larger letters.
There is a 250 sheet paper tray with the option to expand to 1250 with an extra pair of drawers that can take 500 sheets each. Replacement cartridges are easy to come by and will last an average of 6000 pages each. Changing them is simply a matter of removing a panel at the front and unclipping them from their housing. Then just replace them with new ones and recycle the empty ones. The process takes mere moments.
Overall the 5430DL is easy to use, easy to manage and easy to own. With the backing of a firm like Minolta, after-sales service should be good if you ever need it.
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