Kyocera Mita FS-1370DN review

You’re unlikely to print from the Kyocera for the joy of it, though. While we can forgive its slightly soft text outlines, its graphics are simply poor. The dark areas of our black and white photograph were printed black, losing detail, while horizontal banding was quite evident along the page’s length. Other photographs seemed to have artificially high contrast, while business graphics were murky and lacked the sharpness of those from, say, Samsung’s ML-1685W. We experimented with various resolutions and options in the driver, but were unable to improve the results significantly.

Kyocera says that the FS-1370DN can print 35 pages per minute, but we managed 28.3ppm for text, and less than 19ppm for our 24-page mixed graphics document. While the print engine is fast, it paused regularly when printing graphics, contributing to the underwhelming results. To print envelopes you must set the paper size and scaling before pressing the green Go button to start printing, which is fiddly. Unless your only priority is the lowest possible print costs, there are better, cheaper options. Such as the Canon i-Sensys LBP6300dn