Konica Minolta Magicolor 2530 Dl Color Laser

by Konica-Minolta

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 16.9 x 13.4 inches ; 41.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 56 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: B000I7VK0E
• Item model number: A00V011
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 29, 2006

Product Description

MAGICOLOR 2530DL LASERJET 5/20PPM 24X6DPI 64MB ETHERNET

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much luck with ours, October 29, 2007

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Alonzo (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2530 Dl Color Laser (Office Product)

We haven't had much luck with ours.

When it works it works very nicely. Black text pages are terrific, and come roaring out of the machine at a good clip. Color pages are lively -- print photos on first-class paper and it's almost like looking at pages from magazines.

The main trouble is, the machine behaves properly only about half the time we try to use it. Turn it on and we're as likely to get an "Error" light as a "Ready" light. We've spent hours on the phone with Konica-Minolta help -- they've been very nice and helpful, but I'd rather not have to be bothering them in the first place, you know what I mean?

We're forever having to open the thing up and use a pencil eraser to get rid of toner dust, or jiggle the toner cartridges, or pull out jammed paper. The machine seems very sensitive to humidity -- overcast and rainy days mean lots of printing problems. And, as many others have pointed out, this is one loud machine. When it grinds into action it'll make you jump out of your chair. When it's in "rest" mode ... Well, about every ten minutes or so it grinds into action for 30 seconds, maybe. You'll think construction has started up next door. Then it goes back into quiet-sleep mode.

I loved the idea of an affordable color printer, and it was nice to see so many having good experiences with this one. But our experience hasn't been happy, and I wouldn't buy it again. 'Way too much involvement with the guts of the machine. I really don't want to have anything to do with a printer more than switching it on and off, and once in a while giving it some new ink or toner. Owning this thing has been an education in printer technology -- and it's an education I had no desire to be subjected to.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Replace your inkjet now!, April 17, 2007

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Tod Gentille (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2530 Dl Color Laser (Office Product)

Installing this printer on my home network of Macs and PCs (both wired and wireless) was actually a pleasure! Kudos to the software developers at Konica Minolta for making drivers and installers that work perfectly and ship with the product! We were tired of ink jet printers always running out of ink, drying out, printing streaky and generally being useless whenever we needed them. We've only owned this printer a month but so far it is the perfect replacement printer for an inkjet. It is a four-pass printer so it is slower than one-pass versions but it still beats any ink jet I've ever owned. It is fast for just black and white. It is also has a nice small footprint (for a color laser). The only cons are it comes with smaller starter cartridges (but that's one reason the price is so low), and replacements are expensive, and it prints very dark on the Mac so I always use the quartz filter to lighten the output for photos.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING QUALITY, November 24, 2006

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G. Yoder "Nikon user" (Central PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2530 Dl Color Laser (Office Product)

I never had or used a laser printer before buying this Magicolor 2530 Dl Color Laser printer. By now I have had it a little more then a month. It is so much better then any of the three HP inkjet printers I have owned it makes me question my past judgement. Because of never working with terms like 'toner' or warm-up, I called the tech phone number, and boy' are they super friendly and helpful. In no time they had me printing bright true-to-color photos, which is what I bought it for in the first place. The printer works best using LASER paper, although when my inkjet paper was used,it pleased me too. The only downside comments I have are the minute or so wait time for the printer to warm up and orient itself, and it is somewhat noisy ...but am I glad I have it!