Specifications

Print Controller Design Guide for Information Security:
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• When Normal Print is selected as the print job, the print management data
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for the image data
stored in the HDD is stored in volatile RAM memory in Ricoh original format. It is erased at the
conclusion of the job, together with the page location data.
• When Sample Print, Locked Print, Hold Print, Stored Print, Store and Print, or Save to Document
Server is selected as the print job, the necessary bibliographic information for the document is
stored in the HDD along with the image data itself. This information and data is preserved even
when the machine main power is turned off.
• The user ID can be registered in the printer driver UI, which machine operators can then use as a
unique marker for documents to differentiate them from one another. Once a user ID is registered,
it is used for the Sample Print, Locked Print, Hold Print, and Stored Print printing methods, and also
appears in the printing history. In addition, it is also possible to set the passwords for Locked Print
and Stored Print documents as well as the username and password for Document Server
documents.
• Once the necessary username and password have been set in the printer driver, it is possible to
perform User Authentication when sending data to the MFP/LP. The username and password are
sent along with the printing data as authentication data. If authentication fails, the printing data sent
to the MFP/LP is destroyed and the job is cancelled.
• The print job history is stored in volatile memory and is therefore deleted when the MFP/LP main
power is turned off. The information stored includes the username, number of pages, the time the
print job was performed, and job status/results. The print job history can be accessed from
SmartDeviceMonitor for Client, which retrieves the information via a Ricoh-original MIB over an
SNMP connection.
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: The “print management data” is managed and maintained by the Printer function itself, and contains
information such as the size of the paper for printing, job settings (simplex or duplex, etc.) and general
job data (time, username, etc.). This is not the same as the “page location data” for the image data
stored in the HDD.