I have a Minolta/QMS Magicolor 330 EX that I purchased as a factory
refurbished model for $999 USD. It is an amazingly good printer purchased for a
spectacularly great price; seems that Minolta purchased QMS just as their
pre-press color laser printers were becoming legendary.
A bit of tweaking proved essential for photo quality printouts; things like,
"conserve toner: DISABLED", and setting the color model to "PREPRESS" (which
corresponds to Adobe RGB).
What has REALLY made a stunning difference is processing my images with Fovea
Pro 4.0 and using the "Process: Fractal Texture" function on an adjustment
layer that I set to "Overlay/blend 40%" in Photoshop, and run the "Auto Color"
adjustment on, before merging with the final edit of the image on the layer
below. This seems to be the equivalent of Unsharp Masking on steroids, and the
increase in image quality by way of sharpness is just incredible.
John Morton.
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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] USB/Parallel port advice needed
From: Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:12:20 -0700
I'll second Tom's suggestion. I have a Konica-Minolta KM-2430DL color
laser printer, myself. Far cheaper to operate than just about any
ink-jet for run-of-the-mill color printing. 'Tis a network-ready
version
and was about $100 more than what Tom mentioned for his.
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Scott GOmez
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:23 -0400, Tom Scales wrote:
> Another option is an entry level color laser. I bought my Konica
Minolta
> for $199 on sale.
>
> Tom
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From: "Ian Manners" <oice500@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:49:50 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [OM] Minolta color lasers and fangs
I picked a Minolta QMS Magicolor 2300DL Color Laser Printer
off the street a few weeks ago, finished cleaning it lastnight,
all 4 toners are full, with a new drum kit fitted.
Network port, USB, and parallel. Very nice unit, has a web
interface for servicing and setup.
What was wrong with it ?
Display said "Drum unit not in place" or something similar, on
a closer look I could see where the drum in place contacts (on
the printer) to the fuse link on the drum had been bent against
the chassi.
Lucky it hadn't burnout the limiting resister on the control PCB.
Bend them back with round nose pliers and it works 100%, will
do some test printing tonight to see what photos look like.
The graphic test I did is superb but I tend to think that photo
printing wont be as good as a good inkjet due to only 3
cartridges, and also prior experience, like I said, will find
out tonight anyway.
Hope the later models dont clean the drum and transport unit
after each job though, apart from that I'm impressed by the
Minolta build quality and design, as well as the interface.
Least I can get some use out of it until the toners gone then pick
up a more recent model.
Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.comkal.net/
John Morton
http://OriginOfWriting.com
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