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Ricoh SP 4100N Brochure & Specs

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Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N
31 PPM Laser Printer
Test duration: Two months, including a 75,000-impression
durability test.
ALSo INSIDe
Test Procedures
Specifications
Certificate of
Reliability
Ratings scale:
Excellent, Very
Good, Good, Fair
and Poor.
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ecuted to the fullest extent of the law. To purchase reprints of any BLI reports or articles, contact BLI at (201) 488-0404. Buyers Laboratory Inc., 20 Railroad Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Contact us at info@buyerslab.com.
BuyeRS LABoRAtoRy INc.
Reliability .............................................. Excellent
Administrative Utilities .............................. Excellent
Feedback to Workstations .......................... Very Good
Ease of Network Setup .............................. Very Good
Print Drivers ........................................... Excellent
Applications Compatibility .......................... Excellent
Image Quality ......................................... Very Good
Productivity ........................................... Very Good
Ease of Use ............................................ Very Good
Feature Set ........................................... Very Good
Toner Yield ............................................. Excellent
Cost per Page ............................................. 1.111¢
Value ................................................... Very Good
Manufacturer's recommended monthly volume: Up to 150,000 impressions.
BLI's recommended monthly volume for optimum performance: Up to 25,000 impressions.
More information on the Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N is available through bliQ (www.buyerslab.com/bliQ).
BLI RecoMMeNDAtIoN
BLI RECOMMENDATION
Proving itself to be an excellent choice for small to mid-size workgroups, the
Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N, a 31-ppm printer supporting up to legal-size output,
provided an exceptional overall performance during BLI's two-month evaluation.
In addition to being highly reliable, completing its 75,000-impression test
without experiencing a single misfeed and with no service calls required, the
Aficio SP 4100N provides very good quality output and very good ease of use.
Offering resolution modes of 600 x 600 and 1200 x 600 dpi, the Aficio SP 4100N
produced output that was very good overall. BLI technicians cited text that was
crisp and cleanly formed; circular lines that were smooth and of consistent line
weight; and diagonal lines that were smoothly formed, with no stair-stepping
evident. However, halftones were visible over a narrower range than would be
expected for a printer in this class and transitions between some levels were
not distinct.
contact BLI at (201) 488-0404 (x17) or at info@buyerslab.com.
Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N
Lab test Report
A Comprehensive BLI Laboratory Evaluation
June 2007

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

     Reliability Offering resolution modes of 600 x 600 and 1200 x 600 dpi, the Aficio SP 4100N produced output that was very good overall. BLI technicians cited text that was crisp and cleanly formed; circular lines that were smooth and of consistent line Ratings scale: weight;...

  • Page 2: Reliability

    Lab TesT RepoRT Buyers LaBoratory The Aficio SP 4100N was also easy to use from the desktop via the well-laid- out print drivers. Further enhancing ease of use is the very good feedback on device and print job status provided by the SmartDeviceMonitor utility.

  • Page 3: Feedback To Workstations

    SmartDeviceMonitor For Admin – Device Discovery  Ricoh also provides plug-ins for HP Web Jetadmin so that users of this popu- lar network device management utility can use it to manage their Ricoh devices, as well.

  • Page 4: Smartdevicemonitor For Client

    Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N Lab TesT RepoRT Buyers LaBoratory Web Image Monitor – E-Mail Alert Configuration Screen  Further information on device status is available if the user right-clicks on the SmartDeviceMonitor icon on the taskbar tray (the menu shows each of the drivers associated with SmartDeviceMonitor).

  • Page 5: Ease Of Network Setup

    PRINt DRIveRS eXceLLeNt  The Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N ships with four print drivers (proprietary Ricoh RPCS, Adobe PostScript 3, PCL 5c and PCL 6). The drivers are well laid out and easy to use on the Windows XP platform tested and offer a feature set typical of most high-end printers.

  • Page 6: Applications Compatibility

    IMAGe QuALIty veRy GooD  Output produced by the Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N was very good overall; text was excellent, with crisp and cleanly formed characters, even at 6-point font sizes; circular lines were smooth and of consistent line weight; and diagonal lines were smoothly formed, with no stair-stepping evident.

  • Page 7: Ease Of Use

     Further enhancing ease of use is the excellent feedback on device and print job status provided by the SmartDeviceMonitor utility.  Replacing the toner cartridge and drum in the Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N is a clean and straightforward procedure and procedures for loading paper and...

  • Page 8: Toner Yield

    National Security Agency (NSA) methods for managing sensitive information. toNeR yIeLD eXceLLeNt  The tested toner yield of the Aficio SP 4100N’s black toner cartridge is 30 percent higher than the average for tested models in this speed range. vALue veRy GooD ...
  • Page 9 Tested Configuration SP 4100N configuration, which includes 192 MB of RAM, one 500-sheet paper drawer and a 10/100BaseTX Ethernet interface, as well as the optional duplex unit and an additional 500-sheet paper drawer.
  • Page 10 When using SmartDeviceMonitor for Admin, the administrator can create groups of printers, lock the control panel, config- ure printer settings and manage the Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N, as well as any other compatible device on the network—printer or multifunctional—with an embedded Web page. Energy-save mode settings can also be adjusted, toner supply can be moni- tored and job histories can be viewed.
  • Page 11 The user can configure the SmartDeviceMonitor utility to function with only one or all of the Aficio SP 4100N print drivers loaded on the local workstation. The “Extended Features” selection...

  • Page 12: Consumables Monitoring

    Lab TesT RepoRT Buyers LaBoratory Embedded Web page: Yes. The Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N’s embedded Web page offers device status information, including paper size and a gauge representing the amount of paper in each drawer, a toner gauge and a temporary job history, as well as a listing of cur- rent settings and error messages.
  • Page 13 Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N Lab TesT RepoRT Buyers LaBoratory Send once/print many: Although there is a collate selection in the driver, it did not function in testing. For output to be properly collated, the collate selection must be made from the Windows print screen within an application;...
  • Page 14 (e.g., if the vendor’s rated print speed is 20 ppm, 40 pages are printed). The Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N’s print speeds were tested at the default 600-dpi resolution using the PCL 6 driver.
  • Page 15 Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N Lab TesT RepoRT Buyers LaBoratory Print Efficiency 65.2 60.5 94.4 89.3 99.4 93.7 102.1 87.0 90.3 82.7 100% 1 Set 5 Sets 10 Sets 20 Sets Overall Simplex Duplex BLI obtains the overall efficiency percentage by dividing the tested speed of the device by the rated speed and then multiplying by 100 for each run length.
  • Page 16 0.892¢ 1.111¢ Toner cost per page is based on Ricoh’s pricing for the print cartridge and the tested toner yield using the ISO 19752 toner yield test original with 5% page coverage. The supplies cost per page is based on Ricoh’s pricing, BLI’s tested toner yield for the print cartridge and Ricoh’s rated yield for the maintenance kit.
  • Page 17 SPecIfIcAtIoNS Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N 31 ppm (mono / color) Desktop Laser, electrostatic US release: April 2007 FAD 34741 US SRP / Street: $749 /$INA Color Type: Not applicable Controller: Ricoh CPU / Bits / MHz: RM5231/INA/400 Memory (std / max):...
  • Page 18 BLI's in-house durability test. This is to certify that when subjected to a 75,000-impression Buyers Lab durability test in a networked environment, the Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N proved to be a highly reliable product. June 2007 ANTHONY F . POLIFRONE DATE ®...

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