Printing In Non-Windows Environment (Using Connectivity Tools); Printing On Unix/Linux Platform - Ricoh Aficio SP C430DN Technical Information

M065/M066 Correspondence White Paper Ver. 3.0
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Printing in Non-Windows Environment (Using Connectivity Tools)

In the office, several information resources are handled as the communication method within the
section to section, both inside the company and with the client outside.
In recent 10years, due to the revolution of the information technology, the solution changing the
method from analog to digital has been offered continuously.
Now it is believed that digital printing for the documents created in Front Office, which means mainly
come from Office suite application such as Microsoft Office has been covered.
As the business opportunity is expanded by digital technology and advanced capability of the
multifunctional products, many requests from customers have been coming, to handle not only print
jobs from Office suite application but also to print the data from the several Back Office systems, so
called "Line of Business".
Connecting the MFPs/LPs will provide you with much more business opportunity and huge printing
volume, using Connectivity Tools to expand the MFP/LP sales.
F r o n t
F r o n t
 Front Office Apps
 Access to Back Office

2-1 Printing on Unix/Linux Platform

As you can imagine, Microsoft Windows is dominating the client OS market.
But if we see server OS market, we can see that Unix and Linux OS are widely used.
This is because, we can guess of the reasons such as
 Cost advantage in licensing and initial cost
 Or its stability as Operating system
And its reliability especially in Security purpose
in the annual growth trend of UNIX/Linux shipment by IDC estimation, the adoption of these OS has
been progressed year by year.
O f f i c e
O f f i c e
B a c k O f f i c e
B a c k O f f i c e
 Line of Business
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