Setting authentication on Ricoh copiers

[Jobos]

We have 3 Ricoh photocopiers, 1 x colour 5503 for just staff and 2 x mono 6503 machines for staff and students.

 

I've been asked to look into setting the copiers to require a code before printing staff documents and from what I can gather on the Ricoh site this will be a blanket setting restricting all printing. Any advice on how to get round this as it is a primary school and it will go horribly wrong if students start playing with the controls?

[jmak]

Disclaimer: ours are set up with hold print for all users as a global setting, so I haven't tried this.

 

I think you can set this in the driver. We have several "virtual printers", eg reception_colour and reception_mono, which actually point to the same machine, but have different settings. They are deployed by group policy. I think you could set up a printer for students only and omit the authenticated print requirement from the settings in the driver configuration that you deploy to them.

[Jobos]

Yes we have multiple printers pointing to the same printer so I was hoping to achieve the same result only I’ve setup a test printer but unable to get the hold print function working.

[atcoates]

Ricoh support are pretty helpful. They normally send someone out who can create a custom driver to achieve something like this. Might be worth giving them a call first.

[Jobos]

Thanks for the advice but it looks like I’ve cracked it.