Aficio MP C2050 Installation

[Guest]

Hello Ricoh Experts,

My company just purchased a Ricoh MP C 2050 outright (with no service contract), and as the System Administrator here, I am responsible for this machine. I realize these may be some pretty basic questions. As a fairly technical guy, my speciality is really in domain administration and network security - not Ricoh installations.

At any rate, I have set the machine and tested all features. I am happy to say, all features are working; however I have a few requirements for my environment.

1 - I would like to use "User Code Authentication" to keep track of jobs.
2 - The machine should be a Black & White machine for financial reasons.
3 - Color should be allowed to 3 individuals.
4 - Little to no interaction from the user when installing the print driver.

I have successfully installed and shared the Printer on one of our Print Servers with the RICOH Aficio MP C2050 RPCS print driver.

I was able to successfully enable User Code Authentication on the machine through the Web Image Monitor and add entries to the address book and specify Black & White to each user. My problem is when a user adds the Print Driver. They can go into the Printer Configuration and put in their access code, however if they do not switch "Color/Black and White" drop down from Color to Black and White, it will appear their job has printed (even though it has not). This is for requirement 4 above. I would like the job to print no matter what (but just come out in Black & White).

Please also note that if I go into Printer Properties of the driver on the Advanced Options tab and click the Limitation Settings... button, all choices are greyed out and can not be changed.

Again to confirm, I would like User Code Authentication and for the machien to print any job sent to it in Black and White unless a color user code is specified.

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

[Gewch]

Oh, I forgot to mention.

I do not want to use "Windows Authentication" because I don't want users having to input their domain information to make a quick copy.

[Venom]

This is why we charge a connection fee for these. It is poor planning on your part by not getting a maintenance agreement, especially on color machines.

[Gewch]

Well, good thing is they are not rocket science.

I've developed a work-around in the mean time.

Thanks for nothing.

[Venom]

You get what you pay for!!!!

[Gewch]

Well, if the instructions were written by someone who spoke English it would be simple. But, after spending some time going through the Image Monitor, I have found that any high school drop-out would be able to set them up (and repair them too).

Plug a few cables in here and there, run the setup programs and voila.

[Venom]

I agree, they made it simple enough for the IT department to set up.

[aaalexxx]

if you are using user-code to keep track. dun use rpcs. as it will store the code perm. use pcl instead.