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KONICA MINOLTA PRINTING SOLUTIONS U.S.A., Inc.
Konica Minolta Confidential! For Internal and Authorized Use Only.
Preliminary Review of Samsung CLP-500
Base model
As compared to the
Magicolor 2300W
Magicolor 2300 DeskLaser
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Packaging / Contents
Specification overview
Packaging / what’s in the box
Driver / Installation
Print Quality
Performance
Cool Features
Knock-offs
Unpacking and Special Interest Pictures
Design comments
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Executive Summary
Ships in unproportionatly large box to printer
Difficult, time consuming and involved installation process
Many consumables
Quiet operation
Fast at default resolution
Slow at high resolution
Print quality is limited to business use
CPP / COO is higher than magicolor 2300
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Specification overviewModel Samsung CLP-500 Konica Minolta magicolor 2300 DeskLaser
Web price $644 - 699 $599 (after $200 rebate)
Print speed (color) 5 ppm 4 ppm
Print speed (mono) 21 ppm 16 ppm
Resolution 600 x 600 / 1200 dpi class 1200 x 600 / 2400x600 dpi
Automatic duplexing Yes Option
Paper input (std) 350 sheets 200 sheets
Paper input (max) 850 sheets 700 sheets
Paper output (std) 250 sheets 200 sheets
Memory (std) 64 MB 32 MB
Memory (max) 192 MB 288 MB
Connectivity USB 2.0, Parallel USB 1.1, parallel, Ethernet
Emulations GDI GDI
Compatibility Windows 9X and higher, Mac O/S 10 Windows 9X and higher
Monthly print volume 35,000 pages 35,000 pages
Dimensions 20.1” x 18.5” x 15.9” 14” x 19.7” x 15.4”
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Packaging
The box is unusually large
The box does not look well designed for retail
Box is 3 color
–2 sides in English
–2 sides in French
–Top is divided between the two
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Packaging / Contents
Top View of Opened
box
High quality foam to support bottom of
printer
Retail boxes
compared
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Packaging / ContentsDocumentation and
Driver CD
Waste toner is the only
consumable that ships
pre-installed.
Installation items (4 toners, OPC, Transfer
belt, Software
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Documentation, Software and Extras
Canadian Warranty
Setup guide
Free warranty extension card
International warranty booklet
Product registration booklet
Installation CD
Power cord
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Installation Comments
22 steps to prepare printer for use
Installation took app. 1 hour
Printer must be accessed from all sides
Clear Tape
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Installation / Localization The front panel can be localized
into one of the following languages :
–German
–French
–Italian
–Russian
–Spanish
Simple but functional 2 line LCD
Easy to use menu navigation buttons
Attention getting holographic sticker for retail demo page
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Cool Features
Attention-grabbing hollographic for retail
demo page
Simple but functional 2 line LCD.
Built-in duplexer for all models
Quite while operating and USB 2.0.
Demo page is printed duplex. This is slow and tempts you to grab the page before it re-feeds.
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Paper Input
Manual Feed Tray holds up to 100 sheets (3.5 x 5.5 – Legal and 60 – 163 gsm)
Standard paper tray holds 250 sheets (A4 & Letter, 60 – 90 gsm)
Manual Feed Tray
Standard paper tray only supports A4 & Letter
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Paper Output
Standard output tray holds 250 sheets face-down
Standard output tray
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ConsumablesInner
protective cover
OPC is exposed to
light and extreemly seceptable to damage!
OPC drum has 2
protective wrapers
Installing OPC is
difficult and could easily result in a damaged
unit.
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side-by-side
Although the Samsung appears larger it is equal in size to the 2300W in height and depth but is wider
Samsung requires more overall operating space to operate (especially when the multipurpose tray is used (and it must be used for any paper size other than A4 or letter)).
HP 2500, CLP-500, mc 2300W
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Windows Driver Installation
The installation is heavily branded Samsung
The following slides contain all selection screens during installation
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Driver installation step by step
Installation is possible in another language, From the
First screen.
Other options.Ballons pop up on mouse
rollover with detailed descrptions.
Very little user
interaction required for
driver installstion
On-line registration option.
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Driver Configuration Screens / driver properties
Online registraton is far too user interactive and time consuming.
We opted out of this step.
No options
installed.
Image changes
with options selected
All media related options
are on this tab.
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Driver Configuration Screens / driver properties
Color or Grayscale
Basic color corrections
Advanced color
options.You can view images on your
hard drive. What does this have to do with a print
driver???.
Not 1200 x 1200
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Driver Configuration Screens / driver properties
Watermarks, overlays, print order and job recovery options
About tab allows you to purchase supplies
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Windows XP Driver
The driver has been stripped of all infrequently used functions
There are not many settings to be changed
Only 2 resolutions
Every tab has a “Favourites” option
Easy to manage for novice and advanced users
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MAC OS/X Driver
This driver is VERY basic, providing only the most basic printing functions
There are no settings to be changed
You cannot change resolution
No graphic options
You can ONLY print
Print quality is barely acceptable
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Print Quality
Default print quality is suitable for business use only
High quality mode is only marginally better and takes considerably longer to print.
Output has dry chalky look compared to magicolors satin finish
Our test unit exhibited jitter and graininess
Images tend to be oversaturated
Heavy text shows overspray
Normal text and small lines are sharp and clear
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Performance
Samsung CLP-500
vs.
Konica Minolta magicolor 2300W
vs.
Konica Minolta magicolor 2300 DeskLaser
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Testing notes
The Samsung CLP-500 performance was measured and compared to the following Konica Minolta products
– Magicolor 2300 Desklaser
– Magicolor 2300W
Testing was carried out on a system with the following specifications:
– Pentium 4, 2.3 GHz / 512 MB RAM
– USB 2.0 interface
– Windows XP
The following file types were used
– Office XP (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
– CorelDraw 11 and Photopaint 11
– Adobe Photoshop 7.0
– Adobe Illustrator 8.0.1
– Adobe PDF
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Time
Combined Print Times 1200 dpi 5 page Excel
6 page MS Word File
Large Bitmap - Photopaint
Large Bitmap - Photoshop
13 page Power Point
9 page PowerPoint
Large (cad) Vector File
Adobe Illustrator Sample
1 text page 32 copies
32 text pages 1 copy
16 page PDF
4 pg PDF
Better Worse
This simple 32 page text file created a 14.9MB print file
Performance Overview – 1200 dpi
Various file types
Color & B/W
Single and multi-page
Large and small documents
Even though the Samsung
has a faster rated
engine the magicolor
was considerab
ly faster
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Samsung clp-500, 0:06:27
magicolor 2300W, 0:05:23
1 page text file
100 copies b/w MS Word
Samsung clp-500
magicolor 2300W
100 copies of simple b/w text document
MS Word – single page
B/W
1 page x 100 copies
Samsung resolution was at 600 dpi mc 2300 at 1200 x 600 dpi
34 KB
Samsung’s higher engine speed should have given them the advantage here but
the printer went into a long period of
inactivity each time the test was performed.
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MS Excel Document
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
Color & B/W
5 pages
216 kb
0:01:52
0:01:03
0:01:05
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
5 page MS Excel - color/mono
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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MS Word file with color and mono pages
Microsoft Word document
Color / monochrome
6 pages
35.2MB
0:03:21
0:01:46
0:01:47
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
6 page MS Word - color newsletter
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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0:00:46
0:01:02
0:00:41
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
1 page Corel Photopaint bitmap
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
Color Photograph (bitmap file)
Corel Photopaint medium-resolution photograph
Color
1 page
1.6MB
This is one of only a few files where
the Samsung was faster than even the ‘W’.
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Color Photograph (bitmap file)
Adobe Photoshop High-resolution photograph
Color
1 page
43MB
0:00:59
0:01:06
0:00:45
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
1 page Adobe Photoshop bitmap
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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0:06:56
0:03:29
0:03:28
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
13 page MS Powerpoint
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
PowerPoint Presentation
Voyager (Very difficult file)
Color
13 pages
403KB
The magicolor printed this
13 page presentation
in almost half the
time.
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0:05:03
0:02:41
0:02:34
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
9 page MS Powerpoint
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
PowerPoint Presentation
KM rebrand
Color
9 pages
2.7MB
Again, both magicolors are is much
faster on Powerpoint
files.
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Graphic
CorelDraw Vector Graphic
Color
1 page
2,4MB
0:00:58
0:00:57
0:00:44
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
1page CorelDraw vector file
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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Graphic
Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphic
Color
1 page
482KB
0:00:54
0:01:04
0:00:51
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
1page Adobe Illustrator
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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Multi-copy text document
Microsoft Word
Text with several font changes
B/W
1 page 32 copies
34KB
0:01:50
0:02:11
0:02:13
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
1page 32 copies b/w Word fileSamsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
The Samsung had a slight
advantage due to it’s engine speed here
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0:04:22
0:02:13
0:02:14
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
32 pages 1 copy b/w Word file
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
This simple b/w text file spooled 14.9MB due to an inefficient driver
Multi-page text document
Microsoft Word
Text with several font changes
B/W
32 pages 1 copy
797KB
The Samsung should have
had the advantage here
due to its engine speed.
Its poor performance is most likely due
to the large spool file it
creates.
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0:08:55
0:04:20
0:04:17
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
16 page Adobe Acrobat file Color/mono
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
Adobe Acrobat document
Color and Monochrome
16 pages
959 KB
The magicolor
printed this multi-page
document in less than ½
the time.
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Adobe Acrobat document
Color and Monochrome
4 pages
2.9 MB
0:02:46
0:01:42
0:01:25
Time
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300W, 1200 dpi
magicolor 2300dl
4 page Adobe Acrobat file (Graphic intensive)
Samsung CLP-500, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300W, 1200 dpimagicolor 2300dl
Better Worse
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T ime
Combined Print Times
5 page Excel
6 page MS Word File
Large Bitmap - Photopaint
Large Bitmap - Photoshop
13 page Power Point
9 page PowerPoint
Large (cad) Vector File
Adobe Illustrator Sample
1 text page 32 copies
32 text pages 1 copy
16 page PDF
4 pg PDF
Better Worse
Performance Overview – driver defaults
Various file types
Color & B/W
Single and multi-page
Large and small documents
At driver defaults the Samsung is
faster than the magicolors since
they print at 1200 x 600 and
the Samsung prints at 600 x
600 dpi.
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First Page Out from Energy Saver
Samsung CLP-500, 0:02:00
magicolor 2300W, 0:02:25
magicolor 2300dl, 0:02:30
0:00:00
0:00:17
0:00:35
0:00:52
0:01:09
0:01:26
0:01:44
0:02:01
0:02:18
0:02:36
Samsung CLP-500 magicolor 2300W magicolor 2300dl
First Page Out from Energy Saver
FPO from Sleep
Time to print a 5%, 4 color page from energy saver mode
The Samsung has a 20%
advantage in FPO.
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First Page Out from Idle/Ready
Samsung CLP-500, 0:00:22
magicolor 2300W, 0:00:27
magicolor 2300dl, 0:00:26
0:00:00
0:00:04
0:00:09
0:00:13
0:00:17
0:00:22
0:00:26
0:00:30
Samsung CLP-500 magicolor 2300W magicolor 2300dl
First Page Out from Idle/Ready
FPO from Idle/Ready
4 color file
Printer is warmed up and ready to print
The Samsung
consistently outperformed
the magicolors in
FPO tests
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Time to Power Up
Samsung CLP-500, 0:01:39
hp 2500, 0:01:54
magicolor 2300dl, 0:01:59
magicolor 2300W, 0:02:14
0:00:00
0:00:17
0:00:35
0:00:52
0:01:09
0:01:26
0:01:44
0:02:01
0:02:18
Samsung CLP-500 hp 2500 magicolor 2300dl magicolor 2300W
Time to Idle/Ready after being off over night
FPO from Idle/Ready
4 color file
Printer is warmed up and ready to print
The Samsung
even powered up faster than
the hp
The difference in the 2
magicolors may be
explained by the fact that the ‘W’ was low on one
toner
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Duplex
68 page B/W with color cover
71 page manual with color on most pages
4 page intense graphic
To be done.
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Conclusion: performance
The 21 ppm Samsung CLP-500’s engine is rated considerably faster than the 2300W, but was slower in almost all instances.
Total print times for all jobs (1200 dpi:
– Samsung CLP-500: 38:42 (38 minutes, 42 seconds)
– Konica Minolta magicolor 2300W: 23:34 (23 minutes, 34 seconds)
– Konica Minolta magicolor 2300 DeskLaser: 22:04 (22 minutes, 04 seconds)
The Samsung did outperform the magicolors when it was in 600 dpi mode and the magicolors were at their driver default of 1200 x 600 dpi
– Konica Minolta magicolor 2300W: 23:34
– Samsung CLP-500: 10:41
– Konica Minolta magicolor 2300 DeskLaser: 22:04 (22 minutes, 04 seconds)
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11.32¢
13.69¢
16.57¢
2.16¢2.69¢
3.32¢
7.66¢
9.29¢
11.27¢
.00¢
2.00¢
4.00¢
6.00¢
8.00¢
10.00¢
12.00¢
14.00¢
16.00¢
18.00¢
CMYK @20% Mono @5% Av.CPP at 60 / 40 split
Cost Per Page
mc 2300dl
Samsung CLP-500n
HP 2500tn
Cost Of Ownership / CPP
The magicolor enjoys a
considerable advantage in Cost
Per Page
Color CPP at 5% coverage
using $ Web prices
$
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$0 $500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 $4,000 $4,500 $5,000
mc 2300dl
Samsung CLP-500n
HP 2500tn
Total Cost Of Ownership for Selected Warranty Period
Total Cost Of Ownership
The magicolor enjoys a considerable advantage in TCO as well. (It costs less
to own and operate)
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Additional Observations and Photos
Negative and Positive comments
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Consumables
Toners do not all go into the
printer at the same level and physical keying in
inadequate
Toners, OPC, transfer belt and drivers
Exposed OPC shows vunerability to damage during
installation.
This card ships with and has info on toner.
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Cool Features
Clear consumable instructions and reorder or supplies
Built-in duplexer for all models
Easy to navigate menu and attention getting demo button.
Quiet operation and USB 2.0
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Knock-Offs
Main paper tray
only supports A4 and Letter paper
Exposed OPC
shows vunerability to light and
pysical damage during
installation
Most manufacturers have abandoned this front loading design because of inherent print quality problems
Fuser ships without spacers. This could result in flat
spots on the fuser and affect print quality.
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Knock-Offs
Inferior print quality. Our
unit displayed
jitter, chaulky
output and grainy images
compared to the
magicolor 2300
Design flaw requires extra instructions on how to open/close door
Main paper tray supports only A4 and Letter paper. All others must be fed from the m/p tray and this significantly increases this printers’ foot print.
22 steps just for hardware installation
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Knock-Offs
Much larger shipping box is very plain and is less
desireable in retail
Only USB and Parallel on Base
models.
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