Ricoh Aficio SP 204SN Wireless Monochrome Multifunction Laser Printer with Color Photo Scanner and Copier (Windows Only) Review
This desktop office solution is more than your average multifunction laser printer. Featuring easy to use All-In-One print cartridge technology with efficient 23-ppm output speeds is ready to handle the daily print/copy/scan workload of your small office with little maintenance & lots of value. Standing under 12" tall, equipped with a 15-Sheet Document Feeder to automatically process originals up to 8.5" x 14" for B&W copying & full-color scanning. Front access design includes a large control panel for easy operation, a 150-Sheet user-adjustable paper tray & single-sheet bypass, plus a 50-Sheet forward-facing exit tray for a multifunction solution that fits in tight spaces. Small business needs include lots of 1-2 page jobs. Like printing letters & invoices, copying wallet-size cards & forms, & scanning pictures & test results in color for sharing or storage. This printer has a fast warm-up time of less than 25 seconds & a 10-second first print time for near-instant readiness & fast job turnaround. Every file is quickly prepared for printing with 32 MB memory, while ID Card Copy makes quick work of two-sided checks, insurance cards & driver licenses. Perfect for users with local Windows printing, TWAIN scanning, & copying needs. Allow small workgroups to share the network-ready SP 204SN with built-in 10/100Base-TX Ethernet connectivity. Print superior quality documents at up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution. Take advantage of cost-free information sharing with full-color Scan-to-Email & Scan-to-Folder. Quickly transfer hardcopy originals to portable media with the convenient front USB 2.0 host port. Ricoh's proven All-In-One print cartridge technology for simplified operation at minimal cost. Reliable & durable, the AIO cartridge is the only supply you'll ever need - it contains everything that can run out. Intuitive printer & scanner drivers plus an informative control panel with 2-line LCD screen & large hard keys make networked & walk-up job programming effortless.
Price : $89.99
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Ricoh Aficio SP 204SN Wireless Monochrome Multifunction Laser Printer with Color Photo Scanner and Copier (Windows Only) Feature
- 23 pages per minute printing
- B&W Copying
- Full Color Scanning
- Ricoh has disconnected all support in 2013 for this model for Mac OSX. Apple does not support this model either.For Windows OS use only!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great for Home Office
By P. McWhorter
This is a great printer for small office or home office. The trend in printers these days is to offer full color, feature rich printers at extremely low cost, with the catch being insane prices on the consumables. This game is mainly played with ink jet printers, where you can almost buy a new printer for the cost of a set of ink cartridges. This "gouging" also occurs on a lot of the low end laser printers, where the toner cartridges are expensive and limited capacity.
My initial impression is that this printer breaks that mold, and offers a solid laser printer, with the features you need in a small office, with reasonable cost on the consumables (less than $70 for a toner cartridge). Looking at the Ricoh site, I learn that the printer is shipped with a "demo" cartridge that should be good for 700 prints. The full toner cartridge, which is a little under $70 on Amazon, should yield around 1,500 pages printed. This would be a toner cost of about 4.5 cents per page, which is completely acceptable in my mind, and much better than ink jet technology, and better than other low end laser printers I have tried.
I am pleased with this printer, but I will update this review when I determine how many prints I actually get from the cartridge.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Work horse with spikes on it.
By Dinakar Sarma
NOT Mac friendly at all in the least. There is a generic driver for the printer, but OSX doesn't see the printer itself on the network. Connecting via USB was a breeze, but then finding drivers for OSX on their website was a nightmare. Apple has a generic driver for Ricoh printers. Do an Internet search for Ricoh Printer Drivers v10.0 for OS X.
Finding the Windows 7 drivers in Windows itself was also a fresh form of heck. However, once the 64 Bit PC drivers were installed (TWAIN and printer), this thing screams along with speed. Scanning with the ADF (automatic document feed) is lightning quick, at full colour, and 200 dpi. For crappy printed documents, such as carbon copies of dot matrix printer invoices, and carbon copies of hand written bills, it's going to look pretty awful at that resolution. However, that's true with any scanner or copier anyway. Carbon copies are horrible.
With regular coloured ink on a page, however, the results are reasonably good for document sending via email. The resulting PDFs aren't huge. That being said, if you choose a higher resolution, it's going to make a bigger file and that will take longer to send.
Printing speed is amazing, compared to our old HP CP1518ni printer. That thing plods along like a tortoise. The Ricoh blazes through at lightning speed, printing all the things. It is in black and white, which is a concern for those trying to print in colour, but I find that 99% of business printing is black and white. The few things we need colour for, we can use the old printer while we go get a cup of coffee.
Copy making is blazing fast through the ADF. I managed to clock 10 copies within just a few seconds after the thing warmed up.
That's the thing. If you have a lot of print jobs, stack them up, and send them through at once. This printer likes to go to Power Save mode almost instantly, meaning that startup times can be stuttery. If you read the manual, and go through the user settings, you can turn off power save mode, and have the thing ready to roll at all times. Since we turn off the printer before leaving our work, this option works well for us.
Pretty much everything this printer does, it does well.
Why did I dock a star?
Because setup was such a schlep. It took forever to figure out how to get the thing configured to work. Unlike the HP printers, which just work seconds after plugging into the network, this one involved searching for all kind of drivers. Also, the toner is not readily available widely, so you'll be going on hope and trust of third party sellers. I hate going through third party sellers, as I prefer protecting my investment with the manufacturer required products.
Once you get past the prickly exterior, this machine is an absolute work horse.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Will NOT work with Mac. Windows only.
By K. Franklin
After three hours on hold with various levels of Ricoh tech support I was told that there is no Mac driver for this printer. None. And none forthcoming. So I can't report on how it works. This is a WIndows ONLY printer/scanner/copier.
Very disappointing. Nothing on the Amazon description noted that it was Windows only.
Good printer apparently but....
Not what it says it its
