The Konica Minolta magicolor 5450, a single pass laser printer, could easily be found in use in a home office or a small work group; the magicolor 5450 is mid priced around $1200.00 which is in line with its features and specifications.

The magicolor 5450 is equipped with a 667 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM expandable to 1 GB and comes standard with Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, depending on the model, connections for networking as well as USB and parallel ports. More suitable to the small work group with a small 600 sheet installed media ability which can and should be upgraded to the full 1,600 sheets via additional paper trays. The magicolor 5450 will accept a wealth of media sizes for its class such as Letter Plus, Japanese Chou No 4 envelopes, and JIS B5 as well as the standards. Konica Minolta has enabled the use of this printer on systems including Windows, Mac, Linux and Novell. Unfortunately duplex printing is not standard on the 5450 but can be added.

The magicolor 5450 is better acclimated to a small or medium sized work group with a monthly duty cycle of 60,000 pages although the medium sized work group that has heavy printing demands may need a bit more. Generally speaking, the color output is good with a few random faded areas when text is printed in color, but the photo printing is exceptional which is uncommon for this price range and costs less than 10 cents per page. Black and white text, costing 1.3 cents per page, is presented in fair fashion due to its inability to print stylized fonts smaller than 12 point. Black and white documents print at speeds close to 27 pages per minute in the lowest resolution while color is just slightly slower; these speeds are lower than its competitors in class.

The Konica Minolta magicolor 5450 produces great photo prints, has a fast processor but lacks in providing quality text documents at small font sizes; however, considering its price the printer could be a steal for the right environment.