[OPLINTECH] Networking Copiers/Printers

[Chad Neeper]

I don't know offhand if Ricoh has any real management software to manage a
whole fleet of the printers (they most likely do), but at the very least,
individually, you can completely configure them via each one's internal
web-based config tools. It's all IP-based, so assign them static IP
addresses (of course) and connect to them over your VPN. Or if you don't
have a VPN between sites, if you have to, you can use the firewall at each
site to port forward a port of your choosing to the copier's IP:80. If you
have to port forward, though, you ought to at least restrict the port
forward to only work from your central office's IP address.

HTH,
Chad

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Fred Miller Jr. <millerfr at oplin.org> wrote:

> To all the techs for the libraries,
>
> We are looking into getting new copiers for our branches and some for our
> central library. The copier we are looking at is the Ricoh Aficio MP 2050.
> Does anyone know of a way to central manage these copiers with all of our
> libraries being on different networks? I would like to manage all these
> from here at our central office instead of driving over to change
> parameters or settings.
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> Thanks again,
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> *Fred Miller Jr*
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