I have the Minolta 2300DL and 2430DL. As compared to the 2400W, the DL versions have ethernet interface and ability to take more memory. Ethernet interface is a prerequisite in my house due to people coming and going. The 2430DL also has direct camera print called PictBridge but I never used it.

The 2400W/2430DL have thin film fuser and are much faster to first page out than 2300DL with the older heated wire type fuser. The thin film fuser is more susceptible to physical damage such as staples on paper being fed thru.

The 2430DL can take a maximum of 512MB SDRAM in one DIMM slot. As it turns out, most PCs use so called double bank DIMM but this printer use single band DIMM. So it took me a while to find a 512MB single bank DIMM or sometimes called high density DIMM.

Both the 2300DL and 2430DL use print controllers from two different vendors and as a result the output look quite different without any color adjustment.