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New Wide Format Ricoh Aficio MP W5100N/MP W7140EN MFP's Bring Ultra-Efficient Digital Workflow to AEC Firms

by User Not Found | Jan 04, 2012
Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced an enhanced wide-format multifunction product (MFP) platform for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) community and commercial printing operations that serve it.

Platform offers industry’s broadest range of ‘scan to’ options and capture of largest paper documents

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced an enhanced wide-format multifunction product (MFP) platform for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) community and commercial printing operations that serve it.

The Ricoh Aficio MP W5100en, which produces 10 pages per minute, and the MP W7140en, which produces 14 pages per minute, are designed for hyper-efficient capturing, saving and sharing of large documents such as building plans and schematics.

Built on the proven MP W5100/MP W7140 printing engine, the new platform features the industry’s most comprehensive range of “scan to” features, enabling organizations to bring hard copy documents into a productive electronic information workflow.

The MP W5100en/MP W7140en makes it easy for everyday users to scan wide-format documents, such as marked-up construction drawings, directly to email addresses, folders, FTP sites, Netware Core Protocol (NCP) folders, Server Message Block (SMB) files, USB/SD devices, document servers or networked TWAIN applications. These capabilities introduce new efficiency, intelligence and flexibility into the AEC workflow, enabling workers to seize the right information at the right time in the right form. The results can include lower costs, fewer mistakes and help ensure the jobs are done on time and within budget.

The MP W5100en/MP W7140en also captures the industry’s longest originals, offering new flexibility for customers working with plumbing, routing and other linear plans. The MP W7140en easily scans plans up to 98 feet long, or five times the length other wide-format MFPs can handle. The MP W5100en configuration handles 49-foot originals, two-and-a-half times the industry standard. Whatever the dimensions of the original, the MP W5100en/MP W7140en further refines the superior printing and color scanning quality of its predecessor platform.

Add on the apps
The MP W5100en/MP W7140en print option comes standard with a Java VM card that enables customers to easily add on Ricoh and third-party applications to gain powerful new capabilities. For example, customers can add Ricoh PCS Director cost-recovery software, which in conjunction with Ricoh’s @Remote Internet-based MFP fleet support service, can help control spending. Most of the third-party apps available on standard office MFPs are available on this new wide-format platform.

The MP W5100en configuration is available for a MSRP of $34,899; the MP W7140en is available for $45,169. For more information on the Ricoh Aficio MP W5100en/MP W7140en and Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

4 Comments

  1. 1 cialis 08 Aug
    The basic tray is 8.5 x11, above the tray is a what they call the bypass tray that drops down and can take 11x 17. Go to the Ricoh-USA site and you can download a user manual. I have worked on the Savin version, the MLP35N, not a bad little printer.
  2. 2 cialis 06 Aug
    The basic tray is 8.5 x11, above the tray is a what they call the bypass tray that drops down and can take 11x 17. Go to the Ricoh-USA site and you can download a user manual. I have worked on the Savin version, the MLP35N, not a bad little printer.
  3. 3 Sumit 02 Aug
    The basic tray is 8.5 x11, above the tray is a what they call the bypass tray that drops down and can take 11x 17. Go to the Ricoh-USA site and you can dwloonad a user manual. I have worked on the Savin version, the MLP35N, not a bad little printer.
  4. 4 Natalie 31 Jul
    Review by B. D. Herman for Rating: My mom just bought this today and I hleped her set it up. I'm already thinking about buying one, even though I already have a laser MFC at home. It's that good. The setup is easy, the quality is good, and the price is right.1. Setup on PC, Mac, and networkIt was super easy. HP includes the usual install CD, but you don't need it on PC; they put the files on the machine, and they show up when you connect the USB cable (the same way a USB flash drive would, though this doesn't work on Mac). Just follow the instructions; everything is straightforward.If you want to use it over the network (i.e., connect it to your router), you still need to connect it via USB first. Before too long, the installation program tells you to disconnect the USB cable, and you don't need to connect it via USB any further. (So if you have a USB cable that you can use temporarily, you don't need to buy another just for the printer to use it over the network.)If you haven't yet connected the networking cable from the printer to the router, it'll tell you when to connect it, and the router and printer should talk to each other without any difficulty. (My mom's router is a modem/router/wifi hub combo from the Paleozoic Era, issued by a very low-tech rural DSL provider, and it worked just fine.) I expected the networking part to be hard, and it was actually fairly easy. If everything I've written so far makes sense, you probably know enough to set this up on the network.Once it's set up on one computer and on the network, use the driver CD to install the drivers on any other computers on your network; this is even easier.Within an hour (half of the time making room for the printer and so forth), we had:*Installed the drivers on 4 computers (1 Mac and 3 PCs one is even Vista!)*Printed test pages from each*Set up the fax preferences (you can do this on the computer via the device management software, which is WAY easier than navigating the device menus)*Successfully scanned documents into JPGs and PDFs, via the flatbed and sheetfeeder, over the network (many MFCs print well over the network but make it all but impossible to scan without connecting the USB cable), via Mac and PCI've connected a LOT of devices to a LOT of computers, and for such a complicated device, this was ridiculously easy. Major kudos to HP's software team.2. QualityPrint and copy quality are great. That's a given with a laser printer, I suppose. It's only black-and-white, but if you don't need color (e.g., if you print your photos at the pharmacy) or have a separate color printer (e.g., a photo-quality inkjet printer), you're good.The scanning quality is also very good. 300 300 pixel black-and-white scans of sheet-fed documents make great PDFs. I also did a 1200 1200 pixel color scan of an old sports card, and it's quite sharp. I'm not somebody who works with images for a living, but unless you are (or are a very serious hobbyist), this scanner should suit your needs.I wasn't able to get the standard Mac software (Image Capture) to operate the scanner (that software is pretty weak anyway), but the HP Director software works well on Mac (genuinely shocked) and PC.My one complaint about using the HP software for scanning is that it doesn't let you preview-and-crop. If you need cropping (e.g., if you're scanning in 4 6 photos), you'll need to do that with another program. You probably already have something on your computer that will do this, but if not, you can download GIMP (free open source program) or buy something cheap and simple to crop, correct color, etc.We haven't tried the fax yet.3. ValueAt the list price, this is a steal. Even lower-quality manufacturers (you know who they are) are charging similar prices for laser MFCs with no networking capability.If you've never bought a laser printer, the toner cost (currently on the HP website at $68 for a cartridge that yields about 1600 pages) might be a turnoff, but on a per-page basis, it's probably somewhat-to-much cheaper than the inkjet you're using or considering. The overall build quality and durability of laser printers is also much better, so your total cost of ownership (cost of printer + ink/toner, divided by pages printed before the device dies) is likely much lower.In short, this printer is a winner, at least based on initial quality.