Konica Minolta magicolor 1650EN Color Laser Printer

I got this color laser printer to replace a Samsung CLP-315W which was junk (I reviewed it too). The 1650EN is connected via ethernet to a network of Macintosh computers. It has a nice small footprint. It is very quiet in sleep mode, mostly quiet between printing and sleep mode, and somewhat noisy when printing but don't chalk that up as a complaint. The print output is fantastic. The toner cost per print is above average but as it's not our primary laser printer, it doesn't get much of a workout on any given day. For such a small unit, the print speed isn't bad; grayscale output is a little quicker. I give Ease of Setup 3 stars, perhaps unfairly, but only because the company does not do a good job of updating printer drivers for Mac OS X upgrades--it took K-M not less than a couple of months to put out a beta driver for Snow Leopard (OS X v10.6) after its release by Apple, and figuring out which driver(s) to use/install is somewhat confusing. Anyway we got the beta to work...Read more

We run several different operating systems in my house, and getting a printer which can support all of them is a challenge sometimes. This printer fit right in without any trouble. I had the printer unboxed, on the network, and printing from my Linux machine within half an hour, including time to deal with a broken software issue on the Linux machine.

The best bit: because of the Postscript print engine, and Konica-Minolta having the good sense to include Postscript Printer Description (PPD) files, the drivers shipped with the machine worked perfectly on my Linux computer. If you've ever set up a Linux printer, you know that just never happens.

If you have a simple network, this printer is probably plug and play. With absolutely no configuration on my part my main desktop was able to connect to the printer and print.

If you buy a network printer though, there's a good chance that you want to tweak your setup just a little bit. It was...Read more

I purchased this laser printer after doing a fair bit of research on what is the most economical printer, with a good rating AND a network link. It was also important that the printer would work on Mac, Linux and Windows platform. This printer was what floated to the top. The built-in NIC is very useful - just plugin the power cord, a network cable and turn it on - on either the Mac or Windows 7, the printer is detected as a network printer automatically when adding a new printer. No drivers needed. Truly plug and play on both the Mac and Windows.

The unit itself is very quiet when in its power saving mode, with the only indication that its on being a blue light on the front panel. While printing, the unit is certainly louder - but still enough to maintain a conversation at a reasonable level. I haven't truly tested to see if I can get 5 ppm colour or 20ppm B/W, but I have noticed that from power-up to print it takes about 15-30 seconds and less than 10 seconds from...Read more