Ricoh Aficio 3228C Manual
Ricoh Aficio 3228C Manual

Ricoh Aficio 3228C Manual

28 ppm color, 32 ppm monochrome copier - printer - scanner- fax
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Ricoh Aficio 3228C
28 ppm Color, 32 ppm Monochrome
Copier - Printer - Scanner- Fax
Key Buyer Benefits
Feature rich color multifunctional
product within a compact footprint
Excellent image quality across a wide
range of business documents
Flexible desktop and network utilities
via web-based Web Image Monitor and
PC-based SmartDeviceMonitor plus
DeskTopBinder utilities deliver device
monitoring, cluster and recovery
printing capabilities, and much more.
Wide range of productivity —
enhancing features catering to both
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Color at Work
general office workflow and niche
vertical sector requirements
Extensive fax functionality including
several potentially time-and cost-saving
features not typically found on a fax-
centric product
Versatile document management
capabilities both from a walk-up and
desktop point of view
Color dropout technology providing
advanced forms processing capabilities
unmatched by rivals at time of writing
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Summary of Contents for Ricoh Aficio 3228C

  • Page 1 Color at Work 100% Independent Analysis Ricoh Aficio 3228C 28 ppm Color, 32 ppm Monochrome Copier - Printer - Scanner- Fax Key Buyer Benefits general office workflow and niche Feature rich color multifunctional product within a compact footprint vertical sector requirements...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® What’s Inside? (Click on an entry below to go to the page listed.) Product Dynamics ....................Toner....................Embedded Software Architecture (ESA) ..........Market Positioning ..................Color-Capable ................Color-Centric ................Imaging Unit Design ................
  • Page 3 Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® What’s Inside? Copy........................Build....................Copy Concurrency.................. User Productivity ..................Image Quality ..................Print on Demand....................Print ........................RPCS Driver Design................Direct PDF Print..................Desktop Utilities ....................DeskTopBinder Lite ................Scan ........................LDAP Integration ..................
  • Page 4: Product Dynamics

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Product Dynamics The Ricoh Aficio 3228C is the latest in a closely controlled particle size. As you will series of successful business color MFP read later in the report, the results are solutions that have made Ricoh a leading...
  • Page 5: Market Positioning

    Product Dynamics who may be using more sophisticated Market Positioning applications like Photoshop and Quark to The Ricoh Aficio 3228C is capable of produce high quality color output. These color professionals have needs for being both a color-capable and a color- centric MFP solution.
  • Page 6: Imaging Unit Design

    This layout allows the Page 6 Ricoh Aficio 3228C to maintain a more Copyright © 2005 MCA Internet, LLC dba BERTL . 19-Jan-06 www.BERTL.com All Rights Reserved.
  • Page 7: Paper Handling

    In its favor, the Ricoh Aficio 3228C has the settings at the touch screen when paper ability to create full bleed 11” x17” stocks are switched over.
  • Page 8: Automatic Document Feeder

    LAN infrastructure. And Finishing and Output like other network devices, they are The Ricoh Aficio 3228C comes with two subject to the demands of IT managers for finishing options, the Booklet finisher and improved security. Manufacturers have the Multi-tray finisher.
  • Page 9: Security

    The same lockdown capability can be used forgotten about leaving those documents for fax, with the Ricoh supporting fax to for all to see. This is an important user box through the use of sub-address consideration for any company subject to fax numbering.
  • Page 10: Access Permission

    “Erase All Memory” will write over all data on the hard disk drive, (Ricoh notes this is The third is Edit/Delete. Stored files can be deleted. Users with Edit/Delete important when machines are relocated or permission may also view and edit files.
  • Page 11: Security/Accessibility

    PCSM cost and job accounting system. A major design shift on the Aficio 3228C is Access to the device across the network the option to detach the top of the unit and can be limited through the use of IP rest it on a desk if desired.
  • Page 12: Device Management

    Why is this important? Let’s say the third feature with the majority of MFPs on the market today. Ricoh and its Aficio 3228C is paper drawer is empty and it is the only no different and boasts some very special tray capable of handling the 11 x 17 user features.
  • Page 13 Unlike some rival devices, users are able, before your job is ready. using the Ricoh Aficio 3228C to view all four function formats within the single With the Job Tab, users are not constantly application.
  • Page 14 Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Device Management Another invaluable feature that impressed This has numerous real-world applications BERTL analysts was the seamless editing including the personalization of capability that is made available. Users are documents/forms/letters on a user by user...
  • Page 15: Email Alert System

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Device Management The Ricoh Aficio 3228C also supports Email Alert System “on-demand” email replies. This allows For small businesses especially, usually dealers or other remote IT staff to query the device’s SNMP data base by sending...
  • Page 16: Smartdevicemonitor

    Windows notification area. One advantage of the SmartDeviceMonitor over the Web interface is that it lets users monitor multiple Ricoh devices. A click on the notification icon and users can view device configuration, device status and job history information for any discovered Ricoh device.
  • Page 17: Copy

    ® Copy Users familiar with recent Ricoh models will feel very much at home with the new Aficio 3228C. The Aficio 3228C control panel consists of a series of hard buttons as well as a large touch screen to guide users to the task they desire.
  • Page 18: Job Build

    30-sheet document feeder. Job Build Image quality options let you specify the The Ricoh Aficio 3228C comes with a type of original. Users can choose standard 80-sheet duplexing automatic between Text, Text/Photo (default mode), document feeder. For users who need to...
  • Page 19: Copy Concurrency

    In the case of the can return to work with their single page Ricoh Aficio 3228C it was a slight hint of copy job or leave the device to run when cyan giving the 25 percent grayscale larger copy jobs are required.
  • Page 20: Print On Demand

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Print on Demand The 80GB hard drive on the Ricoh Aficio stored file when the email is set up. This 3228C serves two main purposes: saves the user from having to scan the entire brochure.
  • Page 21: Print

    Print Network printing is standard on the Ricoh In certain circumstances, we agree. For Aficio 3228C. This is a trend that is example, it shaved 25 percent off of a 4 commonplace in the office color MFP MB high-resolution image contained in a Word file.
  • Page 22 Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Print level of functionality. The downside is that description of the template settings by the driver takes some getting used to, and moving their mouse cursor over the icon. for those who switch between drivers...
  • Page 23 Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Print Within the edit tab users have the ability to Image quality adjustments were equally as chose duplex functionality, including a user-friendly as other features within booklet imposition layout mode. RPCS, with a selection of well-defined...
  • Page 24: Direct Pdf Print

    User defined page by page paper source selec- The Ricoh Aficio 3228C’s optional tion using the PCL driver Page 24 Copyright © 2005 MCA Internet, LLC dba BERTL .
  • Page 25: Desktop Utilities

    Web Image Monitor. There are many areas that BERTL likes about the DeskTopBinder. Viewing files stored at the Ricoh Aficio 3228C Document Server using DeskTopBinder Page 25 Copyright © 2005 MCA Internet, LLC dba BERTL .
  • Page 26 Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Desktop Utilities The ability to include color- coded notes to documents is a useful feature that can provide entry-level project task management. The ability to merge multiple documents together, add extensive finishing and pre-...
  • Page 27: Scan

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® Scan The Ricoh Aficio 3228C ships with a wide damaging viruses are often spread through range of network scanning utilities as email. Viruses often search for unprotected standard. These include Scan to email,...
  • Page 28 600 dpi down to 100 dpi. The 100 dpi option is lower than most competition a generic email from a Ricoh Aficio 3228C. This allows the recipient to auto-reply unites (which commonly offer resolutions directly to the original sender’s email...
  • Page 29: Scan To Folder

    FTP templates can be support and SD digital card data port set up in advance using the management capability. We would like to see Ricoh add utilities or directly from the copier using the one or both of these options with the ability QWERTY keypad.
  • Page 30: Color Dropout Scanning Functionality

    In addition to the now customary In short, anyone who processes forms will probably benefit from color dropout resolution, file type, and other scanning options, the Ricoh Aficio 3228C also technology: financial institutions comes with an additional scanning feature processing loan applications, insurance...
  • Page 31: Does Color Dropout Affect Productivity

    We carried out ICR process cannot be carried out the test on a clean 100BaseT network automatically. The scan using Ricoh’s using SMB protocol. color dropout technology is easily read and can be fed directly into an ICR engine for We were pleasantly surprised to find that further processing.
  • Page 32: How Is Color Dropout Used

    We would also like to see Ricoh add an ISIS driver to their device, which would allow the device How is Color Dropout Used?
  • Page 33: Fax

    Ricoh Aficio 3228C Color at Work ® The Ricoh Aficio 3228C has an optional Attach Stored Fax Files fax option that must be installed prior to shipment. The fax function has a dedicated Just like we discussed earlier within scan...
  • Page 34: Delayed Transmission

    ® Delayed Transmission LAN Fax Rather than send long distance/ The fax function on the Ricoh Aficio 3228C can also be utilized by desktop users via international faxes during peak daytime rates, the Ricoh Aficio 3228C includes a its standard LAN Fax function.
  • Page 35: Summing Up

    Color at Work ® Summing Up There is a lot to like about the Ricoh Aficio Scan and fax functionality are both at the 3228C. Within a compact footprint lies a top of the pile. The ability to attach pre-...

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