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Summary: Great printer for the price
Review: Was looking to replace old HP laserjet 5xl (constant feeder problem), and saw 2200DL in PCWorld review. ... Decided to take a chance after salesman promised a full refund if I had any problems before 14 days. Setup was a breeze. The hardest part was lifting it up the stairs, unpacking, and putting it on a table. Definitely need two people to do this. It came with the toner catridges installed. Setting up the network config took less than a minute. Downloaded the xp drives from the website and installed it even though it was not xp certified. Did not have any problmes. Black and whites look great. Color prints don't look as good as professional grade printers, such as the Xerox/Teks at work. But for such low price and with color, it's worth much more. This printer does use lots of power, but should be okay with any modern wiring. At 1000 watts, it should use as much as your microwave. Did not noticed any lights flickering, but my ups did click a few times. Overall, this product is highly recommended.
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Summary: I'm changing my review
Review: We bought this product because of the large amount of color presentation material that we were printing at Kinko's etc. It has paid for itself in the first three months that we have had it. It's a great piece of equipment at 999.00. It took about two months for the rebate check to get to me. I would buy another in a second if we needed it. I agree with next review that we had a few problems getting it up and running due to a firmware problem. After the new firmware was in, no problems.
Now the new stuff 8 months later
It has problems printing some formats. Make sure you check your resolution when printing in excel or it will not print. Finally managed to get it on our network after three calls to support. Just had to replace the black toner and fused oil roller. Looks like it might be more cost effective to junk the printer and buy a new one due to the replacement costs of the components. It is a power hog. Have blown the circuit it is on several times(shares with our big copier) I will buy another one most likely
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Summary: Appears to do a great job
Review: We have had our 2200 for about two weeks. Have used it heavily in those two weeks. Am somewhat concerned about the rapid availability of some of the consumables and the price of them. However, I just bought spare toner cartridges and an Oil roller for when these suddenly go empty. I bought this printer at Sam's and paid well under [$$$]. So the replacement Catridges cost me close to what a new one would. That seems to be typical for most printers, doesn't it. I REALLY LIKE THE QUALITY OF THE PRINTS. I am also satisfied with the speed of the prints. So far, as I stated, we have run about 500 copies and and find it to do a good job. The red could be darker but it appears that can be adjusted. I think I would buy it again given the price.
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Summary: Oil Roller Cheap Fix
Review: We use 2 of these toner hungry beasts at my office and recently BOTH printers told me they needed oil rollers,ok however the printer will not function without the roller......as i was waiting 3 days for a new roller to come in i decided to investigate, and discovered a fuse inside the oil roller housing (its where the metal contacts are). The fuse breaks and your stuck, the key is to replace the fuse without damaging the contacts...
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Summary: Great when it works
Review: We've had this printer at work for a year now and I absolutely HATE it....Like others, the consumables are ridiculously expensive and did not last anywhere near what was spec'd. We had to replace all the toners after just 1500 copies (cost over $500). Also had to replace waster toner 2x and roller once.Printer is lovely when it works, which isn't often..Most of the time it won't print..Gets stuck in energy saver, even with that function turned off, and generally just sits there doing nothing! We constantly have to restart it (it has a LONG warm-up period!!) Watching print jobs through our server you can see that the machine is receiving the print request, its just not printing it...Customer Service has been no help. Would never buy another Minolta again!!!
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Summary: Laser color much worse than inkjet
Review: When marketing brochures for our company started taking too long to print out on our low-midrange HP inkjet, we bought our first color laser: the Minolta DeskLaser 2200. We hoped for equivalent color and better performance (and paper handling). It was a disaster. The Minolta 2200 was completely unable to print a decent gradient fill (7 inches wide from blue to white in our case, although it didn't work with any other colors either). There were highly noticeable bands of different colors that sharply switched to other colors. (And the transition to white was pretty abrupt.) We couldn't get a good gradient under Photoshop or PageMaker or even MS Paint. I felt like I was working with an inkjet printer of 10 years ago in terms of the color quality. A handful of calls to Minolta led to various contradictory explanations, none of which resolved the problem. We eventually concluded that the printer may have been performing according to spec, but lacked a whole range of features on inkjets that led to the color quality being vastly inferior. For example, the size of the dots of ink on modern inkjets are noticeably smaller and are blended in a more sophisticated way. This doesn't look as good to the naked eye and it becomes quite obvious when using a magnifying glass to figure out what's going on. Shrunk-down browser screen captures in our marketing brochures had much worse quality on the 600x1200dpi Minolta than they had on our comparable dpi inkjet. The color wasn't as good and the text within the image (such as the URL in the address bar) wasn't as readable. Also, when we created in photoshop hand-generated pixel test patterns with alternating white and colored 1-pixel wide lines (in red, green, blue and black) at 600dpi and 600 pixels/inch, we found that the Minolta generated striped and spotted lines rather than maintaining a consistent line color. This in turn generated various diagonal patterns which suggest to me that the Minolta trades off color and spatial precision at 600dpi, something our cheap HP inkjet didn't do. The Minolta 2200 DeskLaser also didn't support DHCP used on our network, but we did manage to get it working with a fixed IP address on our network, and Minolta support was helpful at one point when we got stuck. But in summary it was a disappointment and we got rid of it and purchased a second [$$$] inkjet. I don't know if other color lasers have similar problems. All I've seen in the store are test-prints and who knows how misleading those are; our Minolta test print looked fine too. My hindsight advice would be if you are going to buy one after using inkjets, try somehow to get a test-print of something you want to output on it in a local store. Or make sure you get a good return policy.
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