KYOCERA MITA KM-2550 TONER CARTRIDGE

Kyocera Mita KM-2550 Review

Overview:

With the advantage of Kyocera’s multifunction system, Kyocera Mita KM-2550 multifunction device is ideal for small offices that demand reliability and low-cost maintenance apart from faster document delivery. KM-2550 is a significant boost to the productivity of your office thanks to its high performance loaded with a wide range of flexibility options. KM-2550 is generally a rectangular box in beige color that’s been broken up by dark gray color styled in some portions of it. The box resemblance is relieved by a small rectangular hole at the front which is just right below the top panel. Right next to that hole is then distinct highlights which are the buttons for controls including the three larger ones in green, orange and yellow color and an LCD display all place in a dark gray colored panel. Its structure and look should fit any work area and considerably be pleasing to anyone in the working team.

Pros:

Printing jobs of large paper volume needs is not a problem with its amazingly large paper sheet capacity that’s standard at 650 sheets given by two 300-sheet paper drawer and a 50-sheet Multipurpose tray best for handling printing on transparencies, envelopes or other specialty papers. If this is still insufficient, 650 paper sheet capacity is expandable for up to a maximum paper capacity of 1250 paper sheets through an additional two 300-sheet paper tray. Not only that it’s a great help in handling large paper volume needs but with its reversing automatic document feeder, it saves a considerable amount of time in manually flipping a paper when printing and copying is needed to both sides of paper. If large amount of papers are needed for a double-sided print or copy output, this feature by KM-2550 certainly is very time-saving and time spent for that work can then be lent to other things thus boosting productivity. And engine speed is excellent at 25 PPM (pages per minute) for A4 size and 13 PPM for A3 size with both first copy out and first print out time of less than 4.9 seconds and warm-up time of less than 20 seconds. This speed is associated with a resolution of 600 x 600 DPI for scan and copy functions and fast 1200 DPI which can be enhanced up to 2400 DPI with KIR2 ( Kyocera Image Refinement) for print function.

A large paper sheet capacity would be meaningless if incorporated in a printing engine that can only accept light printing jobs, but with KM-2550, abusive printing needs are manageable with its 40,000 pages per month of maximum duty cycle and durable life-long drum unit. The 300 MHz PowerPC 750CX processor and expandable 64MB standard printer memory justifies its speedy printing operations. It as well provides various emulation support such as in PCL 6, PCL 5e, KPDL3 with AES, Line printer, IBM Proprinter X24E, Epson LQ-850, Diablo 630, KC-GL and PDF direct print.

Efficiency is better enhanced with the continuous copying for up to 999 in its copy function. This efficiency is further ensured by its functionality including zoom range of 25-200% and image adjustments to text, photo or both all delivered by the memory capacity of standard 64MB.

Scan and fax functions of KM-2550 is as well worth noting. At a scanning speed of 25 originals per minute, scan-to-PC, scan-to-email or network TWAIN is fulfilled. The fax function is compatible with ITU-T Super G3 at a relatively impressive transmission speed of less than 3 seconds and a, modem speed of 33.6 kbps.

Administration is made easy with the KM-net Viewer that’s compatible with all Kyocera printers and multifunction device as well as other vendors. This advanced network management software tool allows visual checking and amendment of all printers on the network from any Windows PC.

Cons:

As with any Kyocera Mita KM multifunction device, KM-2550 is ridiculously large at 547 mm W x 593 mm D x 607 mm H dimensions and 47 kg weight which means mobility is nearly impossible. Operating system compatibility is also a hassle as by default, it is incompatible to newer operating systems namely Windows Vista and 7 since its compatibility are on operating systems prior to its release or in the case of Windows OS, its compatibility is only until Windows XP and so driver/s (if available, which may be found directly in the official manufacturer’s site) is/are needed to be downloaded and installed to be compatible with these newer operating systems.