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Color at Work

TM 

 

Key Buyer Benefits

 

Ricoh Aficio 3228C

 

28 ppm Color, 32 ppm Monochrome 

 Copier - Printer - Scanner- Fax

 

Feature rich color multifunctional 
product within a compact footprint 
 
Excellent image quality across a wide 
range of business documents 
 
Flexible desktop and network utilities 
via web-based Web Image Monitor and 
PC-based SmartDeviceMonitor plus 
DeskTopBinder utilities deliver device 
monitoring, cluster and recovery 
printing capabilities, and much more. 
 
Wide range of productivity — 
enhancing features catering to both 

general office workflow and niche 
vertical sector requirements 
 
Extensive fax functionality including 
several potentially time-and cost-saving 
features not typically found on a fax-
centric product 
 
Versatile document management 
capabilities both from a walk-up and 
desktop point of view 
 
Color dropout technology providing 
advanced forms processing capabilities 
unmatched by rivals at time of writing

 

 

Summary of Contents for Aficio 3228C

Page 1: ...icio 3228C 28 ppm Color 32 ppm Monochrome Copier Printer Scanner Fax Feature rich color multifunctional product within a compact footprint Excellent image quality across a wide range of business docum...

Page 2: ...ained in this document Page 2 Color at Work What s Inside Click on an entry below to go to the page listed Product Dynamics 4 PxP Toner 4 Embedded Software Architecture ESA 4 Market Positioning 5 Colo...

Page 3: ...any inaccuracies or omissions contained in this document Page 3 Color at Work What s Inside Copy 17 Job Build 18 Copy Concurrency 19 User Productivity 19 Image Quality 19 Print on Demand 20 Print 21 R...

Page 4: ...In the past toner was produced by literally smashing up and grinding down colored resins until the particles were deemed small enough to use This approach resulted in uneven particle size which had an...

Page 5: ...t in exchange for the much higher after sales consumables business that the color output offers Color centric on the other hand is where the device is being purchased to handle a high color workload w...

Page 6: ...printers over the years and advises users to look beyond the theory of the imaging process and see how the device is able to handle the specific workload critical to your business Indeed many manufact...

Page 7: ...commonplace The bypass tray maxes out at 90 lb Index 163gsm which is also lower than the weight supported by some rivals That having been said for the majority of office environments the bypass tray...

Page 8: ...staple in 2 positions or 2 staples in 2 positions The finisher also saddle stitches up to 10 sheets resulting in a 40 page booklet some competition can handle up to 15 sheets resulting in 60 page book...

Page 9: ...print driver dialog box and set job type to locked print After clicking details users enter a user ID and password this ID and password will later be used at the control panel to release the print job...

Page 10: ...he job is finished Instead they remain in a passive area of the drive until finally overwritten When you consider the size of these drives 80GB in this instance it could be months or years before the...

Page 11: ...hentication is achieved IT managers in security conscious environments are demanding SNMP v3 which offers data encryption and additional security measures thus preventing a hacker from monitoring the...

Page 12: ...tus will be shown for both users and administrators alike From the perspective of most end users the two monitoring capabilities of this device that will prove to be the most valuable are 1 the abilit...

Page 13: ...ure becomes With jobs lining up in queue who knows how long it may take before your job is ready With the Job Tab users are not constantly walking back and forth from desk to copier to retrieve the do...

Page 14: ...impressed BERTL analysts was the seamless editing capability that is made available Users are given the choice of downloading the file of their choice to the desktop in either PDF or JPEG format In th...

Page 15: ...p for the printer rather than relying on a distant corporate support desk For these situations the Ricoh Aficio 3228C supports email alerts which can be configured through the Web Image Monitor interf...

Page 16: ...ceMonitor This is a Windows based application which can be accessed through the application s icon in the Windows notification area One advantage of the SmartDeviceMonitor over the Web interface is th...

Page 17: ...isplay the status of the machine indicating errors Small visuals identify these errors Add Staple Add Toner Load Paper Service Call Open Cover and Misfeed Just right of hard function keys are five sim...

Page 18: ...ducts with the user working from left to right building the copy job requirements as they go Many users will never need to mine away from the main screen a valuable time saving feature Job Build The R...

Page 19: ...ent feeder capacity Simplicity of interface layout These factors are all going to play a larger part in the overall time a walk up user needs to spend at the device before they can return to work with...

Page 20: ...jobs that have been stored Once stored jobs can be retrieved and reprinted from either the copy control panel or via a choice of two desktop utilities DeskTopBinder or Web Image Monitor In addition t...

Page 21: ...ne Adobe PostScript 3 and Direct PDF printing are available for an additional charge True 1 200 x 1 200 dpi print output is supported in all PDLs except PCL5c which is restricted to 600 dpi While read...

Page 22: ...g upon the workload it requires more thought than the more conventional PCL to PS switching BERTL analysts liked the custom setting facility on the RPCS driver This allows users to save common device...

Page 23: ...s The edit tab also includes an image overlay function This allows users to store commonly used background elements as a ripped image which is incorporated into the print file at the device This saves...

Page 24: ...While all three drivers included a watermark facility only the RPCS driver includes an overlay function While all three drivers include N up capability only the RPCS driver includes Poster mode While...

Page 25: ...ribed earlier with Web Image Monitor However once the document has been added to the DeskTopBinder library either by a drag and drop from Windows direct scanning or pulling back from the Document Serv...

Page 26: ...re flight features such as page numbering watermarking date stamp etc can be invaluable to administrators compiling documents with multiple authors contributors DeskTopBinder Lite also supports a func...

Page 27: ...sers can enter the first few letters of an address and the search engine will show all matching names on the central contact list Users can still enter names which are not stored on the central databa...

Page 28: ...Sarbanes Oxley Legislation or simply those concerned with internal security BERTL also likes the added ability to include a receipt request with the email and a message asking them to confirm that the...

Page 29: ...an to Internet Fax More and more offices fax devices are now being sold with Internet Fax An Internet fax enabled device when set up to the network with its own email address can send and receive hard...

Page 30: ...n The benefit of performing color dropout at the device stage is that the bandwidth associated with the file now decreases dramatically due to the removal of much of the image data This bandwidth redu...

Page 31: ...es The second block of information which asks the user to write over a red background is virtually illegible in the monochrome scan which means that the ICR process cannot be carried out automatically...

Page 32: ...g selected the color dropout feature a user can now choose to remove red blue or green from the scanned image This puts the device on a par with most production scanners that generally only offer colo...

Page 33: ...may be considered more for its copy print and scan capabilities it also holds an impressive arsenal of fax functionality with several features that you would not find on a dedicated fax product Autom...

Page 34: ...elayed transmission capability This allows the user to choose the time at which the fax is sent This can offer cost saving opportunities The feature can also be used to set up large fax transmissions...

Page 35: ...age quality which in the past has been an area that some competitors have focused upon when attacking Ricoh color products is now an area most would be best steering conversations away from when tryin...

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