Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450 Color Laser

by Konica-Minolta

Product Details

Product Manual [6.82mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 55 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 55 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009KVTWE
• Item model number: 5250222-100
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 25, 2005

Product Description

Konica-Minolta (5250222-100) Magicolor 2450 Color Laser

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent printer for the size and price, June 27, 2005

By 

mac enthusiast "Tom" (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450 Color Laser (Office Product)

I did some research on color laser printers in the $400-600 price range. I really didnt see any bad reviews for Konica-Minolta Printers although there are a lot of very unsatisfied HP, Brother and Samsung customers. While I love HP inkjet printers, I have had bad experiences with HP color laser printers and feel that they are slow and often do not print great color depth.

I have read some reviews that talk about the Konica-Minolta printers not fusing the toner well, I found out by trial and error that there are 2 switches on the inside of the printer that you must turn to the right position in order to print on paper (instead of envelopes and heavy cardstock) This is why people felt the toner was not fusing well onto the paper.

All in all i have had this printer for about 2 weeks now and i absolutely love it. It really prints well. I encourage you to go to the local staples, compusa, etc. and compare prints from different brands. I feel that Konica-Minolta printers always print a little bit better than the other brands.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a good printer., March 23, 2006

By 

Hardloaf - See all my reviews

This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450 Color Laser (Office Product)

Have this printer for few months.
Overall would recommend it without hesitation to any small office/home networked environments.

Pros:
1. Very decent photo quality - a really big leap compared to older color lasers . I mean it. Not as good as photo inkjets, but after custom profiling it produces very nice prints at quality level of good magazine. I even have few framed prints from it and from normal viewing distance they look good. For photo printing you should always convert your images to 240ppi - this is it's real color resolution. For BW - 300ppi. Couldn't find this information anywhere and had to do a lot of test prints to figure this out.
2. Size - it's relatively compact and fits nicely on a regular desk.
3. Networked, postscript - all for around $500 and this is a real bargain if you have many different systems and users like I have at home.
4. When asleep drains about 13W of power and this is very nice.

Cons:
1. Noisy. It's drumming like a symphony orchestra when it prints, when you turn it on, when it's going to energy saver mode... Not a big deal for me, but don't use it at night - everybody at your house will know that you are printing something.
2. Sometimes hangs - firmware is a little buggy, but simple restart helps.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK printer, but definitely not without problems, June 20, 2006

By 

Rennie Petersen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450 Color Laser (Office Product)

I bought a Konica Minolta magicolor 2450 printer last winter after reading several on-line reviews. My opinion is that the printer is useable, but I'm unhappy about the various problems I've run into.

My first problem was a lack of information on Konica Minolta's web site, a lack of information that leaves me feeling cheated.

The printer I purchased is used almost exclusively for on-demand printing of product brochures on 160g (approx. 40 lb?) paper. I had checked that the printer specifications said that it worked with 160g paper before I made my final decision. I ordered both the duplex unit and the second (larger) paper tray at the same time as I bought the printer. Then, after the printer was delivered, I discovered that the user manual says that the duplex unit and the extra tray can only be used with 90g (24 lb) paper!

Fortunately, it turns out that the duplex unit actually does work OK with 160g paper. But not the extra paper tray, which is therefore never used - a waste of money. (Incidentally, to reduce paper jams it is necessary to specify that the paper is "thick" when using 160g paper, and this reduces throughput.)

The next problem I had was that the colors are not at all accurate, making some photographs look awful. People's faces tend to be pink or blue. Fortunately, I had a printer calibration kit that had been acquired for a different printer, and I was able to create a color management profile for this printer.

If I had not had this kit (a Monaco EZ Color product) I would have had to buy a printer calibration kit, an expense of several hundred dollars.

I've also had many problems when using this printer with Adobe InDesign.

Sometimes a two-page brochure is printed with the second page upside-down! The work-around is to first produce a PDF, and then print from the PDF. There is a different work-around on the Konica Minolta support forum, but that doesn't work for me. And the support personnel at Konica Minolta are very unresponsive. My last e-mail to the person assigned to my case has gone unanswered for three weeks.

Even with the printer calibrated there are many color problems when printing documents with pictures directly from Adobe InDesign. This may be an Adobe problem, but that seems unlikely. The solution is to always produce a PDF and then print the PDF.

I've also experienced some print quality problems. After only 2000 impressions I had to clean the laser lenses because of vertical stripes on the pages. And some documents with large fields of one uniform light color are printed with uneven color, which looks bad.

A final problem is that the printer is fairly noisy, as noted by several other people.

Basically, the printer does do the job but the lack of compatibility with Adobe InDesign is very irritating, and the print quality is not all that great.

Rennie Petersen