Ricoh MP C400 A4 colour

[Lagonda]

Anybody seen one yet?

[ricoco]

I've had contact with this equipment.
Seems like a good machine for both the user and also for the technician.
I particularly liked the new controller. Everything (or almost everything) that was optional now came in the machine.
Basically I think it is a good equipment, technically speaking

[sharpmind]

Aficio 400 (Zeus- C1) seems to be a good machine.Improved features like printing on letterhead, azerty keyboard, multilingual user interface, safe shutdown, print from usb/sd card,high compression PDF with JPEG 2000, App2me,scan to webmail and user account limiting are available in the machine. Security features like software data security kit and HDD encyption kit are standard on this machine.The only drawback I have seen on this kind of machine is that it has no A3 size setting.It uses only A4 or letter size paper as standards.

[Eric1968]

Just finished training last week. Looks like a good machine with a lot if options already built in, like sharpmind says. Postscript is standard on this machine, so you can also sell them to Apple or Linux users without having to buy the expensive PS-Unit.

[ricoco]

I had training in January and as I told you I found a beautiful machine.
Sharpmind: have you had the chance to work with the "user account limiting "???? LOL I thought it was a joke. Probably the programer did it in one of the trips to the bathroom lol. It is very limited ... I am not only referring to the user. I pity the manager of the equipment. At least there could be a way to reset all users at once. (from what I saw you have to delete one by one). A little more effort and could be a great thing.
Eric: I have no experience with MAC but it seems that new versions of "OS" work with PCL. Is it true???

[sharpmind]

I don't think the user account limiting is practical to use because it will just give more headache to both users and to the technician.it is very limited and you have to reset the user account individually.If the users are not aware of their limit for printing and for copying, they would come to a point that their copying/printing job are not done in time because there is no sign or warning that they reach their limit. They would presume that there is a problem in the machine and immediately give the burden to the technician.

[Eric1968]

All Macs en Linux computers use Postscript as printer language. When your using applications like Photoshop, Indesign, Corel Draw etc, Postscript gives the best result on all type of computers.

[ricoco]

All Macs en Linux computers use Postscript as printer language. When your using applications like Photoshop, Indesign, Corel Draw etc, Postscript gives the best result on all type of computers.

Yes I know that. But they told me that new versions of Mac OS already supports PCL

[ricoco]

I don't think the user account limiting is practical to use because it will just give more headache to both users and to the technician.it is very limited and you have to reset the user account individually.If the users are not aware of their limit for printing and for copying, they would come to a point that their copying/printing job are not done in time because there is no sign or warning that they reach their limit. They would presume that there is a problem in the machine and immediately give the burden to the technician.

Like I said ... a little more effort and could be something big.
HelpDesk must be trained for these situations. Otherwise we will make many trips to just do reset

[TonerMunkeh]

Interesting, it's an SPC430 with a scanner. I wonder if you can use the printer PCU's in them?

[ricoco]

Interesting, it's an SPC430 with a scanner. I wonder if you can use the printer PCU's in them?

Yes it's true.
I tried to see if the fuser fits ... But it does not fit.
The PCU?? I'll try and then say something. I have the two models in the showroom

[Eric1968]

Yes I know that. But they told me that new versions of Mac OS already supports PCL

I've heard that too. I'm not that expirienced with Macs, but Postscript gives far better results than PCL.

[KenB]

Yes I know that. But they told me that new versions of Mac OS already supports PCL

Since when is PCL supported on any version of the Mac OS???

While you may be able to get Gimp or Gutenprint drivers to almost work, they have a ton of issues, and are absolutely not supported.

[TonerMunkeh]

Tell you one thing I've seen with this new breed of printer, I had a toner coil fail on 6k because the cyan PCU wasn't inserted correctly. There's already a couple of RTB's in relation to the toner supply motors. Might be worth checking out if you're going to be putting any in the field.

[Lagonda]

Interesting, it's an SPC430 with a scanner.

So it is a Ricoh box then? the rumour was its a rebadge Samsung