Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

[tcypy1961]

Can you increase the memory on the fax option of a Ricoh MP3500? My customer is trying to fax a 150 page document, but it'll end up stopping and telling them that there is insufficient memory. So they have to wait until the machine is ready to continue. They have tried reducing the amount of sheets they send but still it still tells them that there is insufficient memory. Thank you for any help given.

[sandmanmac]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

How about Scan to PC, and LanFax?

[rthonpm]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

Sounds like the issue is more one of why in the world would you try to send a 150 page fax? Using memory transmission, the machine can only store so much data before it needs to clear out the buffer. Obviously, 150 pages is much more than the average fax so either a more efficient method of transmission is needed, LAN Fax, secure email, anything but relying on a POTS line.

[slimslob]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

There is a memory expansion module. It increases memory available for memory transmission from 4MB to 28MB. Still, why would someone want to send a 150 page fax. The length of time to transmit makes room for all sorts of transmission errors.

[Oze]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

I think the opinion is just going to be repeated here...a 150 page fax is doomed...hard to understand why ppl persist with faxing when scan to email is soooo much more civilized

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

Isn't it something to do with the fact that a fax can still be classified as a legal document whereas a scan can't? Or did I just imagine that in my coffee fuelled morning read.

[slimslob]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

Isn't it something to do with the fact that a fax can still be classified as a legal document whereas a scan can't? Or did I just imagine that in my coffee fuelled morning read.

Yes, but it shouldn't be. The legal thinking is that that the signature on a fax cannot be Photoshopped or cut and pasted. The truth is that the document can be altered prior faxing. Also, since almost all faxes are now plain paper, the received fax can be scanned and the signature cut and pasted from another scanned fax before reprinting.

[Gary Bowen]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

Had the same problem 2 days ago with a MP3352. It is in a doctors clinic and they have dozens of outgoing faxes to other locations all at once, and some are 100 plus pages of LAN FAX; some of the faxes are going to pharmacies, other doctor's, clinics and the hospitables. The MP3500 uses the same Fax Memory Expansion Card as the AF3045 (001342MIU).

[sandmanmac]

Re: Ricoh MP3500 Fax Option

Yes, but it shouldn't be. The legal thinking is that that the signature on a fax cannot be Photoshopped or cut and pasted. The truth is that the document can be altered prior faxing. Also, since almost all faxes are now plain paper, the received fax can be scanned and the signature cut and pasted from another scanned fax before reprinting.

I'm FAR from an expert, but I think that in certain circumstances it has more to do with the possibility of viruses, and that not all mail servers use encryption, so they're susceptible to data interception.

I don't necessarily agree with that, but I believe it's generally government regulations that dictate how these documents have to be delivered, and homing pigeons are too costly to maintain, so it's not surprising.