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Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N
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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.
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Ricoh Aficio SP 4100N
Buyers LaBoratory Lab TesT RepoRT
SmartDeviceMonitor for Client, which automatically creates
the printer port on the client workstation, allows monitoring
of the device and provides feedback regarding print job status
and error and/or warning conditions to users. Print log details
are accessible from SmartDeviceMonitor for Admin, Smart-
DeviceMonitor for Client (only the user’s own print log) and
the embedded Web page of the Acio SP 4100N. The Acio SP
4100N has the capability to have all of the print jobs stored
on the hard drive and then spooled to the engine, in much the
same way a print server would in a larger environment. In the
case where there are a large number of users directly print-
ing to the unit, this capability regulates data ow, prevent-
ing bottlenecking of multiple print jobs sent to the unit. The
administrator can view this spool le and delete jobs from the
hard drive.
Feedback to the workstation is also provided by the SmartDe-
viceMonitor utility, provided it has been installed on the work-
station. The user can congure the utility to send pop-up mes-
sages and specify whether or not to start the utility at all. The
user can congure the SmartDeviceMonitor utility to function
with only one or all of the Acio SP 4100N print drivers loaded
on the local workstation. The “Extended Features” selection
of SmartDeviceMonitor enables the user to specify the condi-
tions to monitor and when notication via pop-up windows
is desired. The selections available are: “Notify of printout/
data transmission,” which launches a pop-up window when-
ever a print job is sent and upon completion of a job; “Notify
of printout/data transmission cancellation” and “Notify when
errors occur while printing.”
When SmartDeviceMonitor is launched, its icon appears on
the taskbar tray. When the user right-clicks on the icon, the
menu shows each of the drivers associated with SmartDevic-
eMonitor. If the user selects one of the drivers, the Properties
screen for that driver will open. There are three tabs for the
user to select from: the Status tab, which shows a graphi-
cal representation of the device and its options, along with
the current status of the device; the Conguration tab, which
graphically displays the conguration of the device (Input Tray,
Output Tray, Toner, Function, Option, System, Printer Lan-
guage and Network I/F) as icons that, when selected, display
a detailed description of the feature (such as the amount of
toner remaining in the cartridge); the Job History tab, which
lists completed print jobs and the status of pending print jobs
(SmartDeviceMonitor for Client lists jobs for the current user,
while the Admin version lists jobs for all users). The display
shows User Name, Document Name, Status, Pages, Started At
(date and time) and User ID.
SmartDeviceMonitor For Client
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