Konica Minolta MAGICOLOR 3100 DN

Reviewed by: grab2000

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: price, auto-duplexing, excellent print quality

Weaknesses: driver, documentation complexity

Overall Evaluation: I am very pleased with this printer. The price beats comparable high speed color laser printers, but it is also the only one in the price range to offer automatic duplexing. I tested the color printing against original photographs and was quite surprised with the near perfect quality. This printer has many options and features (networking, special color matching technologies, etc.), most of which I will never use. There is a lot of documentation supplied with the printer, essentially made up of many different manuals written for different purposes (administrators manual, network set-up, users manual, and a couple "Crown Books"). Most of the basics are in an installation guide, but if you need more information, it can be confusing trying to determine in which book, and where to look. So far the output is flawless, without a single paper jam or any other problem. A few issues with the Windows 2000 driver were resolved with help from the support desk. Emails and phone calls were answered quickly by Minolta. The support section of Minolta's web-site is very basic and virtually useless, however.