Question about Ricoh scanners & copiers

[Guest]

I have a question about Black & White Ricoh scanners. Would it be possible to scan documents with the scanner and then print them on a 1200dpi laser printer and get the same quality results as if I copied and printed them on a 1200dpi Ricoh copier like a 1075? About a year ago I went to a Ricoh dealer and had them demo a scanner and they scanned some documents into a pdf format and the results when printed, especially with graphics, was disappointing. I wonder if there is another format to scan the document into that would produce true 1200dpi results when printed on a laser printer. I print a lot of documents with graphics in them and really need a 1200dpi machine.

I understand that Ricoh has a proprietary format that its copiers use. I am intrigued by this format because I can scan a 200 page document with lots of graphics into a Savin 8090 and still have 95%+ hard drive capacity left. If I scanned these same documents on my Epson flatbed scanner in 1200dpi I would probably fill up a 200Gig hard drive. I would use enormous amounts of storage space.

Any comment or ideas would be appreciated.

[Fearless V K]

You can try to scan the files as TIFF's instead of PDF's and see if it helps.

[Ollie1981]

I have a question about Black & White Ricoh scanners. Would it be possible to scan documents with the scanner and then print them on a 1200dpi laser printer and get the same quality results as if I copied and printed them on a 1200dpi Ricoh copier like a 1075? About a year ago I went to a Ricoh dealer and had them demo a scanner and they scanned some documents into a pdf format and the results when printed, especially with graphics, was disappointing. I wonder if there is another format to scan the document into that would produce true 1200dpi results when printed on a laser printer. I print a lot of documents with graphics in them and really need a 1200dpi machine.

I understand that Ricoh has a proprietary format that its copiers use. I am intrigued by this format because I can scan a 200 page document with lots of graphics into a Savin 8090 and still have 95%+ hard drive capacity left. If I scanned these same documents on my Epson flatbed scanner in 1200dpi I would probably fill up a 200Gig hard drive. I would use enormous amounts of storage space.

Any comment or ideas would be appreciated.

If I read this correctly

You want to print and scan at 1200dpi and get similar results to copying using a Savin 8090 (Rebranded Ricoh MP9000 if I'm not mistaken).

Firstly without specifics about exactly what brand and model of printer and scanner you're using it's very difficult to guage what kind of result you'd get. For instance I have a HP laser printer at home that (supposedly) prints at 1200dpi but the result is barely distinguishable from 600dpi and graphics suffer badly from banding. It's a cheap printer and you get what you pay for I guess.

It's also worth bearing in mind that an Aficio 1075 can print at 1200dpi but scans at 600dpi, therefore all copied documents are 600dpi by default.

As for file format, most copiers I've seen with the print/scan option can output to TIFF or PDF, both of these are standard non-proprietary formats. What is proprietary with Ricoh copiers is the file format of the hard drives themselves, any information stored for instance cannot be read by a PC if the drive is removed from the copier and placed into a caddy, this is most likely because the copier has some sort of compression routine. I know the Bellini/Katana must employ something similar to RAID as it has a bank of hard drives that must be replaced at the same time.

[(FF)Wendal]

You will get a better copy with the 1200dpi scanner then if you scan on the ricoh cause ricoh scanner is only 600 dpi.

[Greg81]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to try out the TIFF format.