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We had a problem similar to this some time ago..We replaced one vendor with KM products. Someone did not do their research and it was discovered that the customer's security team would not allow the printers to be placed on the network, only local USB connections. The problem was the old machince gave some kind of user interface via USB, the KMs did not. We would up installing USB to ethernet adaptors. USB on the PC side, Cat 6 cable to to MFP..Configured the adaptor and machine with mactching IP schemas and 'viola" probelm solved. ( we had to eat the cost of the adaptors).
I have never figured out why a printer/mfp would be a "security risk" and as usually configured, operates on the LAN behind a firewall!!! Only way to get in from outside is if the IPort was pinholed!!! Now if the threat was from the inside, it would be from one of the pc's scanning open ports of devices to try & exploit!!!
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Tell that to one of my customers (large college campus with 100s of MFPs) that came in over the weekend and found some hacker had tunneled in through port 25 and had every MFP run print jobs until paper was depleted. In some cases, the users saw the flashing add paper message and reloaded..I'm not saying that you can use the copier to launch a nuclear weapon strike, but some of those older machines def had weaknesses. All you need is some SMB password to be stored in clear text, and you have a entry onto the system. E
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What a waste of time!!! no one in right mind mind would connect a C258 to one user via usb. Unless in a house by themselves. Usb only good for like 16 feet away. You can see the
OP Panel from there and tell if it is low on toner!!
Most cheap ink jets have a part of the software that shows POP UPS with low ink levels.
Big price difference between the 2 models you have listed in opening post.
Some years back I had a Ricoh MP 161 in a state office.
Their policy was that no printer was to have a network connection, USB or parallel connections only. The machine was connected USB to one workstation, and was a shared printer for the other 3 or 4 workstations near it which were given access to print.
Every few weeks or so for about 6 months they kept calling us to set it up as a scanner, and each time I had to explain that it was no banana until they granted network access. That model did not have Scan to USB capabilities.
I even suggested a second NIC in the host PC with a crossover cable, but the buttweed IT guy was having none of it.
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