I always tried to keep the latest Ricoh firmware updates loaded on my laptop along with at least 3 previous versions and the latest firmware history. When downloading firmware I always use the repository server, RFG-esource, and not TSRC because TSRC did not always have the links to Custom and Special firmware. Many of those were updates to SMB scanning and SMTP email problems for older models no longer in production. Many were not always available outside the US as they were written by Ricoh-USA engineers. Some were written for specific customers and vertical markets and you had to fill out a request form specifying why you needed it and who the customer was. If an update was mandatory we would schedule we would schedule a visit to load the update. The rest of the time I would check the Firmware history top see what was corrected by that update to decide if that customer needed it To try to do updates as they came out just because they were there was ridiculous, especially when the 03 color models came out. There were multiple updated modules almost every day.
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