The Konica Minolta magicolor 2400 is a budget-priced color laser printer with the quality and speed to match most workgroup printers. With its compact size, just 13.4 by 16.9 by 19.8 inches (HWD), and weighing only 44 pounds, it will fit easily into most small spaces.
Setup for the Konica Minolta magicolor 2400 is very simple, requiring users to remove packing materials and some shipping tape. The cartridges are pre-installed, and are ready to print as soon as the printer is plugged in and connected. Software installation is also a breeze, and users will be up and running in just a few minutes.
Print speed is impressive for the price, at 20 pages per minute for monochrome prints, and 5 pages per minute in color. Print quality is average for a color laser, with sharp text and decent graphics quality. Text quality suffers on some fonts when printing smaller than 8 points, but other fonts can print as small as 4 points without quality loss. This is typical in budget-priced laser printers, but worth considering if your needs include a lot of “fine-print” printing.
Konica Minolta magicolor 2400 toner cartridges have a capacity of 1,500 pages for the standard color Konica Minolta 2400 toner cartridges. There is also a much more economical, high yield version of the Konica Minolta magicolor 2400 toner cartridges. These Konica Minolta 2400 toner cartridges have a capacity of 4,500 pages for both the color and the black toner cartridges.
The 2400 includes a USB 2.0 connection, but no included ethernet port. Network sharing will have to be done through an external print server or through a connected PC. Duplexing (double-sided printing) is possible, but only by manually re-feeding the paper. The software walks you through the steps to feeding the paper back through correctly, making it a fairly simple process.
Overall, the Konica Minolta magicolor 2400 strikes a good balance of price, speed, and quality that will make it a very good choice for its price. Quality and speed are better than expected, and if buyers can do without a few lacking features, such as built-in ethernet and automatic duplexing, it represents a great value for a color laser printer.
