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Dislikes: Does anyone know of a Ricoh print driver that will distinguish color and black and white within the file. So only count the black and white pages as black and white color as color. Their Cannon does this for them now.
Does anyone know of a Ricoh print driver that will distinguish color and black and white within the file. So only count the black and white pages as black and white color as color. Their Cannon does this for them now.
Sharp and Kyocera will do it. You should know, though, that the ability of the driver to accurately identify monochrome versus color images is doubtful at best.
There are a bunch of Sharp posts on this topic. Essentially, if there is one pixel of color in the document, it's a color document. And most applications use color in their monochrome images (I think it displays better on the monitor). Some of the techs here will confirm spending hours with Colorpic, scanning apparently monochrome images just to find 1% or 2% magenta in some pasted art, so it's a color click.
Certain applications are particularly unfriendly in creating documents that count properly. Microsoft Publisher is particularly odious. Adobe Acrobat Professional is better.
If you sell this feature to your customer, you may be very unhappy with results and the time and effort required to make it work properly. This is my "... told you so." =^..^=
If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=
I doubt you will ever find a concrete answer to this.
The best suggestion I can make is to install all drivers available for that model (you neglected to say which one it is), and print the same file with each one, checking which meter(s) get incremented each time.
Also keep in mind that multiple pages printed on the same pass will count as color, even if only one page is. That's because the color developing unit(s) don't get released. This is especially true when printing booklets.
Blackcat is right; it's more application dependent than anything.
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It is not necessary. Ricoh will only count a page as being color if there is at least one color pixel on the page. If the driver is set to default as color and you send a B/W only documents, it will count the pages as B/W. The single pixel on a page is why we usually set the drive to default B/W. If the customer wants to print something in color, they have to use file print and go to printer properties and select color.
Probably Xerox is best at auto color feature but Ricoh is good at customization - try to envolve their professional services department. Trying a driver from a different manufacture might work too but it needs lots of testing.
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