Ricoh C811DN - Aficio SP Color Laser Printer User manual

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BUYERS LABORATORY INC. Lab Test Report
A Comprehensive BLI Laboratory Evaluation
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Manufacturer’s recommended monthly volume: Up to 200,000 impressions.
BLI’s recommended monthly volume for optimum performance: Up to 35,000 impressions.
More information on the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL is available through bliQ (www.buyerslab.com/bliQ).
Offering a cost per page that is among the lowest for competitive models
tested to date, the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL color laser printer demonstrated
an impressive performance during its 100,000-impression BLI evaluation,
completing the two-month test with no service calls and no paper jams
recorded, for a awless reliability performance.
Using four-drum, single-pass technology to output at 40 ppm in both black and
color, the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL produces very good color output due in
part to Ricoh’s PxP Toner technology; the chemically-grown toner particles are
smaller and more uniform in size, which provides crisp, clear text, improved
denition and sharper images. Moreover, over the course of the two-month
test, the color output of this unit remained very consistent throughout the
test. Black output was also very good. BLI test technicians cited crisp, cleanly
Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN-DL
40 PPM Color Laser Printer
Test duration: Two months, including 100,000-impression
durability test.
BLI RECOMMENDATION
ALSO INSIDE
 Test Procedures
Specications
Certicate of
Reliability
Ratings scale:
Excellent, Very
Good, Good, Fair
and Poor.
Reliability .............................................. Excellent
Administrative Utilities .............................. Excellent
Feedback to Workstations .......................... Very Good
Ease of Network Setup .............................. Very Good
Print Drivers ........................................... Excellent
Applications Compatibility .......................... Excellent
Color Print Quality ................................... Very Good
Black Print Quality ................................... Very Good
Color Print Productivity ............................. Very Good
Black Print Productivity ............................. Very Good
Ease of Use............................................ Very Good
Feature Set ........................................... Very Good
Toner Yield ............................................ Very Good
Cost per Page (Color/Black)...................5.206¢/1.172¢
Value ................................................... Very Good
MAY 2007
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formed characters, even at 6-pt. and 8-pt. sizes, with no toner spray, and thin
lines on dark backgrounds that were clearly visible.
Because of its outstanding performance in BLI's tests, including its awless
reliability, excellent cost per page and thorough administrative utilities, BLI
highly recommends the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL for color environments
printing up to 35,000 impressions per month.
+ The Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL is certied highly reliable by BLI, complet-
ing a two-month, 100,000-impression durability test without experiencing a
single misfeed and with no service calls required.
 SmartDeviceMonitor for Admin allows the administrator to create groups of
printers, lock the control panel, congure printer settings and manage the
Ricoh Acio SP C811DN, as well as any other Ricoh or compatible non-Ricoh
device on the network—printer or multifunctional—with an embedded Web
page.
 Web Image Monitor, the embedded Web page, offers device status infor-
mation such as the amount and size of paper in the drawers, the amount
of toner remaining and temporary job history, as well as a listing of cur-
rent settings and error messages. The Administrator mode of the embedded
Web page, which is password-protected to ensure only authorized users can
make changes to the device, allows the administrator to view information
on device status and make changes to conguration settings, as well as set
up e-mail alerts to notify specied users of error and warning conditions.
—PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW
, —and  represent positive, negative and neutral attributes, respectively.
RELIABILITY EXCELLENT
ADMINISTRATIVE UTILITIES EXCELLENT
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SmartDeviceMonitor For Admin – Device Discovery
 Web SmartDeviceMonitor is available for free download from the Ricoh Web
site. Web SmartDeviceMonitor allows administrators to discover, monitor
and manage Ricoh and compatible non-Ricoh devices on the network via a
standard Web browser without needing to install additional software.
 Users can receive pop-up messages via the SmartDeviceMonitor utility. The
“Extended Features” selection of SmartDeviceMonitor enables the user to
specify the conditions to monitor and when notication via pop-up windows
is desired. The selections available are: “Notify of printout/data transmis-
sion,” which launches a pop-up window whenever a print job is sent and
upon completion of a job; “Notify of printout/data transmission cancella-
tion” and “Notify when errors occur while printing.”
 Users can also choose to receive e-mail alerts for specied error conditions
and events; a wide variety of events can be selected for up to four specied
users via the embedded Web page.
FEEDBACK TO WORKSTATIONS EXCELLENT
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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). If the user selects one of
the drivers, the Properties screen for that driver will open and display infor-
mation on device status, device conguration and job history.
SmartDeviceMonitor For Client
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 During installation, the SmartDeviceMonitor utility automatically locates
the device and displays the IP address, allowing the administrator to simply
select it to create the port, and automatically detects the installed hard-
ware when using the PCL and RPCS drivers. For the Adobe PostScript driver,
the congured options must be manually specied by the user.
 The Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL ships with four print drivers (a 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 color printers.
 The PCL and RPCS drivers are very graphical and offer most of the commonly
used selections on the main screen. The Adobe PostScript driver, as would be
expected, is typical of PostScript drivers in that users must access additional
tabs to make common print job selections.
 Although not uncommon, the appearance and layout of the PCL, Adobe Post-
Script and RPCS drivers differ.
 The RPCS driver allows users to save print driver selections under custom
icons for one-click selection of commonly used print settings.
 The RPCS driver has a print quality summary feature that allows the user
to view all print quality selections before sending a job to the printer. This
feature allows the user to conrm the print quality selections by selecting
the Print Quality Summary tab in the driver.
 No problems were experienced with any of the test les used in the applica-
tions compatibility tests. Units are tested for compatibility on the Windows
XP platform with Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft
Excel 2000, Adobe PageMaker 7.0, Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Acrobat
6.0 using 25 application test les, which contain text, graphics, halftone
images, tables, etc., enabling BLI technicians to evaluate memory usage,
le processing, font rendering and grayscale capability.
EASE OF NETWORK SETUP VERY GOOD
PRINT DRIVERS VERY GOOD
APPLICATIONS COMPATIBILITY EXCELLENT
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Color Print Quality VERY GOOD
 Photographic images were rated “Very Good;” BLI technicians noted realis-
tic colors in images, though skin tones exhibited a slight yellow undertone.
Business graphics were also very good, with vibrant and eye-catching colors
in graphs and charts.
Black Print Quality VERY GOOD
 Black output produced by the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL was very good over-
all; text was excellent, with crisp and cleanly formed characters, even at
6-point font sizes. Line art was also produced very well; diagonal lines were
clean and straight, with no stair-stepping evident. Halftones were visible
over a very good range, though toner coverage was inconsistent in some ll
areas. Solids were also very good, with consistent toner coverage and very
good density readings.
Color Print Productivity VERY GOOD
 While overall color efciency is above average in simplex mode, color print
efciency is well above average in duplex mode from the PostScript driver.
 The unit completed BLI’s 19-page color job stream at 73.51 percent of its
rated speed when printing from the PostScript driver, which is among the
best performance of any color printer in this category. When printing from
the PCL driver, the Ricoh SP C811DN completed the color job stream at
72.39 percent of its rated engine speed.
 First-print times for the PowerPoint, TIFF and JPEG les used in testing are
competitive to faster than average compared to competitive color models
tested.
Black Print Productivity VERY GOOD
 While overall monochrome efciency is competitive in simplex mode, mono-
chrome print efciency is well above average in duplex mode from the Post-
Script driver.
 The Ricoh SP C811DN completed BLI’s 19-page monochrome job stream at
80.55 percent of its rated speed when printing from the PostScript driver,
PRODUCTIVITY
IMAGE QUALITY
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which is the second best performance of any color printer in this category.
When printing from the PCL driver, the Ricoh SP C811DN completed the
monochrome job stream at 83.11 percent of its rated engine speed.
 First-print times for the Word and PDF les used in testing are competitive
with the average compared to competitive color models tested.
 The control panel consists of a four-line 108-character graphical LCD display,
12 hard keys (Online, Menu, Job Reset, Escape, OK, up, down, right and left
directional arrows, as well as three keys for making menu selections) and
three LED indicators (Power, Alert and Data). The control panel display also
has a convenient toner gauge to indicate the approximate amount of toner
remaining in each cartridge.
 Two drivers are loaded by default using the Ricoh quick-install routine, the
RPCS driver and the PCL 6 driver, as well as SmartDeviceMonitor for Client;
however, users must perform separate installations to install the Adobe
PostScript 3 driver or SmartDeviceMonitor for Admin.
 Specifying job requirements from the well-designed print drivers was easy.
 Further enhancing ease of use is the excellent feedback on device and print
job status provided by the SmartDeviceMonitor utility.
 Replacing the toner cartridges and drums in the Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL is
a clean and straightforward procedure for and procedures for loading paper
and removing misfeeds are very simple.
EASE OF USE VERY GOOD
Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN-DL Control Panel
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 The standard paper capacity of the Ricoh SP C811DN, at 3,200 sheets, is
more than twice the average when compared to the average for color print-
ers in this class; when compared to the average maximum paper capacity
for the group, it is competitive.
 The Ricoh SP C811Dn supports up to 140-lb index through the bypass tray,
which is heavier stock than can be supported by many printers in this cat-
egory.
 Although the standard memory capacity, at 512 MB (nonexpandable), is
above average when compared to single-pass printers in this class, some
printers in this class offer a higher maximum memory capacity.
 A standard 40-GB hard drive is included for added storage functionality.
 The Ricoh Acio SP C811DN also includes a PictBridge connection for direct
printing of photographic images from compatible digital cameras.
 A choice of optional nishers is available for the SP C811DN, including a
1,000-sheet booklet nisher that staples up to 50 sheets per set and a 3,000-
sheet stapler/stacker that staples up to 50 sheets per set. An optional 2-/3-
hole punch kit is also available for the booklet nisher.
 With the purchase of the optional IS300e Image Scanner, the Ricoh Acio SP
C811DN-DL offers color and monochrome scanning and convenience copying.
The IS300e includes a 50-sheet ADF and allows color and monochrome scan
to e-mail with LDAP support, scan to folder with SMB/FTP capability, scan
to print via USB and network connections, and TWAIN scanning via USB and
network connections.
 The Locked Print option allows users to send a print job directly to the
printer memory. The print job can be printed only after the user types a PIN
into the printer control panel. After the job is printed, the job is no longer
displayed on the control panel but it is still held in the printer memory; the
job can only be deleted using the password or by powering off the printer.
 The Ricoh SP C811DN can help prevent unauthorized copying of printed
documents by embedding a masking pattern that appears if a document is
scanned or printed on enabled Ricoh devices.
 Using SmartDeviceMonitor, the administrator can lock control panel menus
to prevent unauthorized changes to the device conguration.
FEATURE SET VERY GOOD
SECURITY/ACCESSIBILITY NOT RATED
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 SmartDeviceMonitor encrypts data sent to the printer via Internet Printing
Protocol (IPP) with Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)
technology, thus protecting data transmission from being intercepted by
outside sources.
 The Network Data Protection Unit enables data encryption so that only
the SP C811DN-DL can properly recreate the data stream, guarding against
information theft. The SP C811DN-DL also supports SNMP v3 authentication
and data encryption, as well as, the ability to password protect PDF Direct
Print functionality.
 The optional DataOverwriteSecurity System automatically overwrites image
data three times, conforming to National Security Agency (NSA) methods for
managing sensitive information.
 The tested yields for the black and color toner cartridges are higher than
the average for tested printers in this class.
 The Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL is priced competitively with the average for
competitive ledger-size network-ready single-pass color printers with simi-
lar standard features (i.e., printers with a color speed from 35 to 45 ppm,
automatic duplexing and a standard hard drive). Its cost per page for black
and color output is among the lowest for competitive printers tested.
TONER YIELD VERY GOOD
VALUE VERY GOOD
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LAB TEST
Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN-DL
Buyers LaBoratory Lab TesT RepoRT
Test Environment
The product has been tested in BLI’s 10,000-square-foot test lab, in an environment
monitored by a Honeywell Temp/RH chart recorder, which replicates typical ofce
conditions.
Test Equipment
BLI’s dedicated test network, consisting of Windows 2000 servers, Windows XP work-
stations, 10/100BaseTX network switches and CAT5 cabling.
Test Duration
Products are tested for two months, a portion of which consists of a durability
test during which the product is run at its manufacturer-rated maximum monthly
volume, with daily volumes evenly divided over the course of the test.
Tested Configuration
Ricoh Acio SP C811DN-DL model.
Test Procedures
The test methods and procedures employed by BLI in its lab testing include BLI’s
proprietary procedures and industry-standard test procedures. In addition to a
number of proprietary test documents, BLI uses an industry standard Katun test
original for evaluating black image quality and test suites from Quality Logic to
evaluate applications compatibility. In addition to a visual observation, color print
quality is tested using the ANSI standard IT8 Color Test Target, which is read using
the Minolta CM503I Spectrophotometer, and samples are analyzed using the CIE XY
Chromaticity Diagram. In addition, density of black and color output is measured
using an X-Rite 428 Densitometer.
SUPPORTING TEST DATA
Buyers Laboratory Inc. • 20 Railroad Avenue • Hackensack, NJ 07601 • USA • [phone]
Michael Danziger
CEO
Mark Lerch
COO
Anthony F. Polifrone
Managing Director
Daria M. Hoffman
Managing Editor
Lynn Nannariello
Assistant Managing Editor
Marlene Orr
Printer Industry Analyst
Ben Curry
Associate Editor, Solutions
Tracie Hines
Associate Editor
George Mikolay
Associate Editor
Carl Schell
Associate Editor
Lisa Reider
Research Editor
Marc Bussanich
Technical Analyst
Camille Dendtler
Research Manager
Pete Emory
Manager of Laboratory
Testing
Pia Beddiges
Manager of Competitive Services
Ken Nardone
Technical Manager, Field Testing
Anthony Marchesini
IT Director
T. R. Patrick
Art Director
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