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Konica Minolta Magicolor 5570 Review and Cartridge Choice

The 5570 is the latest colour laser to joincolours together in the form of the Toner
the established magicolor family. With aValue Pack. As yet there are no compatible
quoted top speed of 35ppm for mono and 30ppmcartridges available, but when they are
for colour, it looks capable of satisfyingintroduced further running cost savings will
high-volume workgroup printing and usesbe  able  to  be  made.
Konica Minolta's Simitri HD polymerised toner
technology, which claims to deliver superiorAnd so to print quality, and it's here the
print  quality.5570 and its Simitri HD toner scores, as
output is far superior to many competing
Simitri HD uses toner particles that areprinters. The printer produced some of the
uniform in shape, and Konica Minolta claimsbest text quality we've seen, with
this allows the printer to deliver finerrazor-sharp standard font sizes and even the
detail and use less toner than thesmallest point sizes boldly produced with no
competition. It also claims the toner meltsdiscernable smudging. Mono photos don't
at much lower temperatures, allowing thesuffer from any colour cast, and the levels
printer to save up to 15% on powerof detail are very good. Colour photos
consumption and reducing paper curling. Plus,revealed a lot of detail but suffered from
it emits 40% less CO2 than conventionalslight banding in large areas of a single
toner.colour - something the HP Laserjet CP4005n
didn't have a problem with. However, if it
We have no arguments with build quality, andhadn't been for the banding, we'd have had a
despite being only slightly larger thantough time telling them apart, as both
Lexmark's C532dn the 5570 weighs a hefty 44kgdelivered a vibrancy in our test photos
fully loaded. Standard paper handling isthat's often lacking in colour lasers. The
spread across a 500-sheet base tray andquoted mono print speeds are slightly
100-sheet motorised MP tray, and you can addoptimistic, as we clocked a 35-page basic
two more 500-sheet base trays. Along with aWord document at 1min 8secs for an average of
decent processor, the printer sports 256MB of31ppm. However, colour printing was on the
memory, and an extra 512MB costs £190money, with our 24-page DTP document
which  is  very  reasonable.completed  in  48  seconds  for a tidy 30ppm.
As is the norm nowadays, the printer comesThe magicolor 5570 may not be able to offer
supplied with low volume starter cartridges,the same output quality as HP's Laserjets,
in this case 6,000 page yield cartridgesbut it certainly matches them in terms of
which give a cost per page of 7.1p for colourvalue and speed. The printer is well built,
and  1.3p  for  mono  output.and its low printing costs should put it on
any  enterprise's  printing  short  list.
As soon as these are depleted they should be
replaced with high yield 12,000 pageAll in all a solid colour workhorse that
cartridges and this will reduce the cost perdelivers good speed and quality colour
page to a more respectable 5.8p for colourprinting with moderate running costs should
and 1.1p for mono. Another 0.1 p per page canlet this one onto your shortlist.
be shaved from these costs by ordering all



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