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More…The compact Konica Minolta PagePro 1400W costs just $120 (as of 8/4/2006), but it lacks several features that you can find on printers costing only a little more. Its single paper tray holds just 150 sheets. The tray also lacks a cover to protect against dust and spills. Most monochrome lasers we've reviewed recently offer at least a manual slot for feeding alternative paper types and envelopes, but for the 1400W, these must be swapped into the tray. (At least you can feed up to ten envelopes from the tray--some printers let you feed only one at a time.)
Konica Minolta PagePro 1400W Laser Printer (17 PPM, 1200x600 DPI, 8MB, PC)
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Latest Price: $126.54
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | No |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 150 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 100 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 150 |
| Duplex printing | No |
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Pros
Produces fast, high-quality text
Competitive price
Cons
Includes just one paper tray
Slower than most similar mono lasers
Bottom Line
Compact model produces high-quality text, but it has only one paper tray.
Konica Minolta PagePro 1400W
PagePro 1400W Laser Printer (17 PPM, 1200x600 DPI, 8MB, PC) Review, by Paul Jasper August 17, 2006
The 1400W connects to your PC through its USB 2.0 High-Speed port. You'll need to use Windows' built-in printer sharing to make it available to other PCs on your network. Like many budget-priced printers, the 1400W uses your PC's processor to render its pages directly from Windows' low-level Graphics Device Interface. As a result, this printer is compatible with Windows machines only, and it lacks PostScript and PCL support--though that shouldn't affect your ability to print everyday documents.
Konica Minolta ships the printer with a toner cartridge that yields only 1000 pages (according to the industry-standard rating method). Replacement cartridges rated at 2000 pages cost a moderate $55 each. However, a separate drum unit costing $105 has to be replaced every 20,000 pages, pushing the cost per page up to 3.3 cents. Replacing these parts is a rather complex process. A complete imaging unit slides out through the front door of the printer, from which you detach both the toner cartridge and the drum. The process exposes you to the toner, which is easy to spill. By contrast, the Lexmark E120n, for example, uses cleanly sealed toner cartridges that you replace without touching the drum.
For a laser this cheap, print quality was surprisingly good. We saw nice solid text with crisp edges in our tests, although some bold lettering almost merged. Line art appeared sharp, but blocks of close parallel lines were spaced unevenly to give striped-like patterns. We spied very narrow horizontal banding across our grayscale image, but it had smooth tonal changes despite being a bit dark. In our speed tests, text pages printed at 13.1 pages per minute, a slower rate than most recent small-office lasers have achieved. Graphics also printed at a below-average 6.5 ppm.
The Konica Minolta PagePro 1400W is a budget model that should fit easily into even the smallest office. However, its lack of multiple paper trays and slow printing speed make it less appealing than other compact models.
Paul Jasper
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Performance
| Color Photo (secs) | 14.69 |
| Color Photo, Normal Settings | 14.69 |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Good |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic | 15.38 |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) | 15.38 |
| Output Score, Grayscale Graphics, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Grayscale-Best) | Good |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Good |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Very Good |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 45.97 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 45.97 |
| Tested Color Graphics Speed (formerly pf-PCWColorSpeed) | 6.5 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 6.5 |
| Tested Text Speed (formerly pf-PCWBWSpeed) | 13.1 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 13.1 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document | 22.86 |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) | 22.86 |
| Three-Page Word Document | 22.34 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 22.34 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 18.08 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 18.08 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
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User Reviews From Around the Web
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Reviewed by: leady
Strengths: fastsmallgood software
Weaknesses: price
Overall: good price and easy to use software. Compare to the new canon I bought (all in one,very old software........), I prefer this one. the 1400w is small and smart.
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Reviewed by: pgyoon
Strengths: Cheap price w/ rebate
Weaknesses: Mediocre print quality. Somewhat noisy.
Overall: Not bad for the price I paid for.Text printing is good while it's not too small.Not bad for the personal use but I will buy other brand next time.
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Reviewed by: iamwz2003
Strengths: Affordable, printing quality is good.
Weaknesses: a bit noisy when it prints.
Overall: 1400W is a compact and affordable laer printer for personal office and home use. The printing quality is pretty good and it prints pretty fast. Sometimes I feel it is a bit noisy when printing. But this is not a big complain.
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Reviewed by: qnju
Strengths: Good price. Clear prints.
Weaknesses: none.
Overall: This model is an upgrade of K-M's popular model 1350. It is smaller than 1350 and functions similarly. Price is good and printing quality is OK. I will Recommend this printer as home use one.
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Reviewed by: techlover
Strengths: Durable and reliable!
Weaknesses: Expensive Toner
Overall: This printer will print everything and more. This is ideal for a small home office. Even though it takes a lot of space on your desk, it will provide effective print quality. The best printer that money can buy!
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