Specifications

BUYERS LABORATORY TEST REPORT Ricoh Aficio 2022SP Multifunctional
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TEST RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS continued
begins when the “Start” button is pressed and continues
until the last page exits onto the exit tray.
Fax scanning speed with 4% page coverage original: 1.57
seconds per page; range for fax machines tested to date,
1.57 to 10.00 seconds.
Fax scanning speed with 12% page coverage original: 1.58
seconds per page; range for fax machines tested to date,
1.58 to 13.53 seconds.
Transmitting from memory after a failed communication:
Good.
Performance of LAN Fax Functions
General. The LAN fax driver and Address Book utility were
easy to use. The LAN fax driver is selectable as any printer
driver would be from the printer folder. It contains the IP
address of the device and routes faxes through a print queue
to be transmitted via the Aficio 2022SP’s optional fax mo-
dem. When the user creates destinations for users and
groups with the Address Book utility, the addresses auto-
matically become selectable from within the LAN fax driver.
Addresses can also be entered on the fly. It should be
noted that when the unit is configured with two phone
lines, all LAN faxes are transmitted using the primary phone
line by default. So, for example, if the primary phone line is
busy with a transmission or reception, the LAN fax will be
held in queue until the line is free.
Composing and sending a LAN fax: The “LAN-Fax M3”
driver is similar to the print-to-fax drivers of many Win-
dows-based multifunctional products tested in that it re-
quires the user to manually switch between the printer driver
(used to print PC files) and the fax driver (used to send a
LAN fax). After a document is created, for instance in
Microsoft Word, the user faxes the document by selecting
“LAN-Fax M3” as the default driver and either manually
dialing the destination or selecting a destination pro-
grammed in the address book. The fax driver also supports
setting up faxes for later transmission, cover pages, reso-
lution selection, storage to the document server and as-
signment of user or department codes for tracking pur-
poses.
Receiving a LAN fax: Good. The Ricoh Aficio 2022SP can
receive LAN faxes to the exit tray, or can automatically
forward all faxes to the hard-disk drive (from which they
can be retrieved via the Web Image Monitor), to an
administrator’s e-mail address (the administrator would then
route received faxes to the intended recipients), or, via rules-
based routing (e.g., based on TTI or RTI), to e-mail ad-
dresses.
Printing a LAN fax: Good.
PC-fax logs/reports: A log of LAN faxes and fax receptions
is accessible via the Web utility.
Performance of Scanner Functions
In its standard configuration, the Ricoh Aficio 2022SP offers
embedded scan to e-mail, scan to file (via FTP and SMB)
with support for TIFF, PDF and JPG file formats, and support
for T.37 Internet fax (requires fax option), which all performed
well in BLI’s tests. The scan-to-e-mail function supports
LDAP, so users can access e-mail addresses on a network
mail server directly from the control panel of the Aficio 2022SP,
eliminating the need to program e-mail addresses that may
already reside on a mail server. In addition, e-mail destina-
tions, along with fax destinations and folder/FTP locations
for scanning to file, can be conveniently programmed re-
motely from the Web utility. Destinations can also be en-
tered on the fly via the control panel’s QWERTY keypad.
After doing so, the user may press the “Program” key to
save an address in local storage on the device for future use.
The system comes bundled with DeskTopBinder Lite to en-
able users to work with scanned documents.
In BLI’s test environment, the network-connected Aficio
2022SP sent a scanned document to and from multiple PCs
through a Microsoft Exchange mail server. This capability is
an alternative to faxing that enables users to save money by
avoiding telephone usage costs that would be incurred by
faxing. When a fax is received by an e-mail address, it is in
the TIFF-F format.
At the control panel, walk-up users first select the “Scan-
ner” key and then select either the icon for scanning to file or
for scanning to e-mail destinations. Destinations, which can
be programmed either at the control panel or via the Web
utility, appear on the control panel as selectable choices. Up
to 2,000 destinations can be programmed. Multiple destina-
tions of any type, such as scan to e-mail (up to 500) and scan
to file (up to 50), can be selected for the same session. Users
may also select duplex or single-sided scan, resolution (100,
200, 300, 400 or 600 dpi), scan paper size, density, original
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