PCWB - Colour Laser Printer £149

RTi

PC World Business have got a Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300W @ £149

looks a good price for a colour laser printer..

https://www.pcwb.com

http://www.pcwb.com/servlets/Catalogue?id=(196295)&shop=PCWBD&userid=

Roger_Rampant

Wow, prices just keep on dropping! Anyone know if this printer has any major drawbacks, please?

[EDIT: it's £149 + VAT actually]

essentialoils2u

plus over £200 fort toner when you run out

venkata

Wow, prices just keep on dropping! Anyone know if this printer has any major drawbacks, please?

[EDIT:  it's £149 + VAT actually]

Plus Delivery Comes to £199 (almost) lol :P

We have one at work as it was cheap. It prints different shades of colours on ell the machines that are connected to it. Spent hours trying to get all the pcs's to print the same shade of colours (it's very noticeable). Same PCS with the same O/S. Even done fresh installs and tweaked with the colour settings on the software.

We normally get HP's and after this we will be sticking to them.

Apart from that it's ok.

RTi

yeah i for got about the vat sorry.. bumps it up to £175 ..

the magenta toner is £85 .. but the rest are about £50 which is pretty cheap for laser toner..

misco are selling the printer for £280

redfox

Drawbacks I can think of (which may or may not be important to you!) are:

no ethernet
can't add extra paper tray
no useful control panel (printer control done via host app on PC)
it's a 4 pass colour laser so will be slower
memory can't be expanded
consumables cost is high

oh and colour lasers are pretty useless at photo printing

Roger_Rampant

I have a Samsung laser printer that I grabbed last year when I saw it in PCWorld for just over forty quid, including two toner cartridges

However Jessica (11) moans like mad that we now have a printer that does smart letters, but can't print off her beautiful colourful works of art in all their glory

Sounds as if I'd be better going for something like an Epson R300, as we will hopefully be printing off colour pictures at some stage (when we can afford a decent digital camera)

Thanks anyway for the heads up