Rating: 
Summary: Quality printer at small price
Review: I've worked in a print shop with lot's of high end laser printers and I have to say that the low price of this little thing had me thinking twice. Toner seemes reasonable to replace. I print 50 to 500 pages at a time at home and jet printers were killing me! For B&W printing, you can't do anything but be surprised at the quality and speed! Clear,crisp, even with a photo! Was a bit confused at the instructions for putting in drivers, but worked it out easily. Hooked up quick and I was off and running in 10 minutes. Reasonable all around. Couldn't be happier!
Rating: 
Summary: Great, but...
Review: This is my first home laser printer, and I love it. First page out is very fast, as is print speed. Looks a lot better, in my mind, than the HP 1012. Manual duplex is easy to do. Noise during printing seems quite acceptable. And apparently the toner cartrdiges are easy to refill. A few niggly things stop me from giving this 5 stars: - There's a fairly loud fan hum for about 15 minutes after printing, as it cools down. Not outright noisy, but way noisier than the average computer, and annoying for anyone who tries to minimize noise. I find myself avoiding printing small jobs sometimes, in order to avoid the noise after printing... (The HP 1012 doesn't do this, as it's fanless; but apparently its print speed slows *way* down after ~50 pages, in order to avoid overheating.) - I'm very keen on double-sided printing, and this printer does it well. However, it always prompts me to turn over the paper (or cancel duplex), even after printing a job of just one side. 'Twould be nice if it was smart enough to realize there's no reason to turn over and run the page through the printer again... Easy enough to hit Cancel, but still a minor annoyance, particularly when photocopying. - Large power draw immediately prior to printing causes house lights to flicker. Not too bad, but noticable.
Rating: 
Summary: Annoying Software
Review: This is my first laser printer which I will use primarily for text.
I really don't like the "Status Display" program that starts every time I boot my computer. It gives the same Power Off/ Communication Error message every time dispite the fact that I set the program not to warn me.
I can't find any way to turn off the Status Display pop-up. Konica should give the user the option of turning this off.
Rating:
Summary: Good printer, great value
Review: This printer is great for a home user coming off of the inkjet bandwagon. It only runs off of Windows which is good enough for 85% of you out there. Cost per page is great as is the speed. I also had the 1250W and the 1350W is basically the same thing with better constrution/looks and faster. To the guy who was complaining about the toner cartridge - yeah, you have to use the Minolta toner which is probably a load of crap but don't misrepresent the product's cost. A regular toner is around $80, about $10 more than the Samsung equivalent. The high-capacity toner runs about $120 and is almost impossible to find so I wouldn't use it as an example of cost.
Rating: 
Summary: Bought it and sent it back
Review: This was a great printer as far as print quality and speed... but what Minolta doesn't tell you in advance is that if you either refill the cartridge or use a non-new or non-factory cartridge, the printer goes into "deep cleaning" mode (permanently) while printing and slows down to about 6ppm. It won't go back up to regular speed unless you install a new Minolta cartridge. This, of course, is a completely bogus excuse for forcing you to buy Minolta toner (which costs $130). I called tech support to confirm that there was no workaround, and the woman I spoke with had received 4 complaints that morning on that issue. So I sent it back and bought a Samsung ML-1710, which, although a little bit slower (17ppm instead of 21) can use any toner and seems like an excellent little printer.
Rating:
Summary: Toner Scam
Review: Yeah this is a pretty good printer. Like the other reviews it does a pretty good job dosen't jam much if you use regular paper, but it is a little on the loud side. I got it for $99 and was initially very happy.
Now for the scam. The printer is set up to read a chip on the toner cartridge that says how many prints that the cartridge is good for. The printer then counts the number of pages printed and arbitrairly slows the printer down till you buy a new cartridge. The cartridge that comes with the printer is rated for 1500 pages at 5% page coverage. You can also buy 3000 and 6000 page cartridges. The only difference between the cartridges is the chip on the bottom and the amount of toner/developer within the cartridge. When my cartridge reached 1500 prints the printer software said it was out of toner, it wasn't. There was clearly still toner in the cartridge and it was printing flawlessly. So what's the problem? I was in the middle of printing out a mass mailing (+/- 250 sheets) and the printer would pause for 5-10 seconds between each page taking a total of about 20-25 seconds for a page. The printer is rated for 21 ppm and it took the printer almost an hour and quarter to print everything.
After fighting with tech support over there being no scientific reason for slowing down the printer ("deep cleaning mode")after 1500 sheets while there is still toner in the available in the original cartridge I gave up. Buyer beware, yeah initially cheap but the lowest price I could find for a 3000 page toner cartridge was +/- $85 without shipping. So you pay double for toner making this an expensive printer in the long run. Do some homework and price the toner before you buy your next printer or you'll regret it like me.
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