[OPLINTECH] Networking Copiers/Printers

[Joe]

Plus one to what Chad said, that is how I would do it.
For six or seven locations, I would be incline to at least get a VPN 
setup to each location and control them individually through their web 
interfaces rather than trying to get a whole fleet management program.  
The cost of such a program and the time to figure out how to work it 
would probably not be worth the cost of it for the size of the fleet.
In addition, the VPN connections would be useful for diagnosing and 
fixing a whole host of IT issues.

Have a good day.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 6/3/2014 9:49 AM, Chad Neeper wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>
>     Thanks again,
>
>     /Fred Miller Jr/
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>     IT Service Manager
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