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I have a Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W colour laser printer. A machine I have been, generally, quite happy with. It prints extremely quickly in black and white (spec’d at 20 pages per minute) and reasonable colour printing (spec’d at 5 pages per minute). I’ve had it for about 4-1/2 years and printed 8415 pages with it (986 in colour). Since moving to Madrid, it has been acting up a bit. I think something got bent out of alignment because the printer jams a lot more than it used to (and often times they are “fake” paper jams – all I do to “fix” it is open it up, remove everything I can remove, open and close latches, turn what I can turn, then return everything back to normal and it works fine for a few weeks. I am also running out of black toner. The problem is that the toner is extremely expensive: €120 for black and €180 for each of the yellow, magenta and cyan (in Canada, the prices are the same, only in CDN $). I only paid CDN $299 for the printer. I can’t imagine spending almost as much on a toner cartridge as I did for the printer. But, I don’t want to get rid of the printer either, I love the 20 ppm printing speed – it is a no brainer between reading a 100 page document online or printing it out. Another option is to buy a refill kit. I used to refill my inkjet cartridges (TIP: if you refill your own inkjet cartridges, don’t bother with drilling a hole in the top and “injecting” the colour because that is messy. The way I used to do it was to slowly “drip” the ink, using the syringe, onto the ink pad on the bottom of the cartridge. Yes, it takes longer, it can still be messy, but not as messy as the recommended method).
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