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Product Reviews:
Konica Minolta BLACK TONER FOR 5430DL ( 1710580-001 ) |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Overpriced - consider a new printer
Comments: This is not so much Amazon's fault, however here's a printer that sold for well under a thousand dollars, depending on when you purchased it.
Typically, Konica-Minolta sold its laser printers with short life laser cartridges, i.e. a capacity about half of the normal units. when time rolls around to replace black, you are looking at a substantially higher price than when the printer was dropped for another.
If you've replaced all the carts as I have, you are sometimes spending more than a pretty great color laser costs now, i.e. somewhere over $600. The black goes 1st. So I am on the third -- it's going to last a while. For the almost all part, I use an old, reliable HP4050 which was so common that there is price competition for cartridges. Printing monochrome on the HP costs about a third of what the 5420DL does.
E printer make tries to make their profit from consummables. Some of the printer makers wind up being much more expensive over the longer term than others. KM is1of them. |
