Printer Resetter Service Manual

The Ricoh Aficio 2045 is a heavy duty office printer, scanner and copier, for heavy duty use in busy offices. It is a machine that can produce good reproduction at 45 pages per minute. There is also the option to add faxing capabilities to it, if you so desire.

The built-in 64Mb of memory and built-in 20Gb hard drive ensures that the Aficio 2045 can cope with the largest print jobs. The toners standard 30000 page life also lends itself well to a heavy use machine.

This printer and copier is quality. It can produce prints up to a resolution of 600 dpi at a rate of 45 pages per minute. The first page is delivered within 10 seconds of pressing print too, which is good for such a large device. The reproduction is excellent, with text showing as sharp, with clear, clean edges and good spread. Images are accurate and clear, with the shading even and without any obvious bleeding or jagging on the edges.

The control panel is well thought out and simple to use. There are large buttons that allows you to choose between copy and scan and the bright LCD clearly shows you what you’re doing. It is one of the largest LCD screens we have seen on a copier, and it very easy to read. It’s also a touch screen, which adds much flexibility to the control system, merely by having the ability to press the appropriate command on the screen rather than hunting for the button.

There are two 500 sheet paper trays, which can be expanded to a maximum 3500 sheets with the purchase of optional paper drawers. There is also a bypass tray that can hold 50 sheets, while the output can handle 250. Everything feels reassuringly solid, which is a good thing with a machine this big.

The Aficio 2045 also has a full duplexer for double-sided printing and copying, full network capabilities and supports PCL and PostScript, so can be used with any operating system. The scanner has scan to mail, and the ability to scan over a network too.

Being able to buy toner at $20 for 30000 pages is a bargain. That is an ideal economy for an office busy enough to warrant buying a Aficio 2045. With a solid built, and heavy duty cycle, this machine is built to work all day every day.

To print a config page from a Pro C651 or Pro C751:

- Press the User Tools button
- Select Printer Features
- Select Configuration Page

It wasn’t all that long ago that color laser printers were regarded as too expensive for most offices to even contemplate using. Not only were they expensive to purchase, they were also expensive to use. Gradually over time, companies like Xerox began producing good quality laser printers only slightly more expensive than decent inkjets. This opened the market for other manufacturers to get in on the act and this is where we find ourselves now.

The Lexmark C532 is another quality printer from a name that is already ubiquitous with quality. Like the other members of the “C” class the C532 punches way above its weight in terms of cost and performance.

It’s difficult to find something new to say about these printers as they all offer great value for money and print really well. Text reproduction is the high point of the C532. Edges were straight, shading was complete, no jaggies and no fuzziness at lower points. Image reproduction was no surprise either. Both photos and images were reproduced accurately in both color and monochrome. The grayscale does an excellent approximation of the colors and there is no detail lost in translation. There were no artifacts, or banding like you see with many other, more expensive lasers.

Setting the C532 up was as easy as unpacking it and connecting it. Once powered, it was automatically discovered on the network and were configured in minutes. Starter toners are included which are good for a thousand sheets each, which isn’t so great but replacements are easy to acquire and reasonably priced. A new black toner will last for 4000 pages, and the color ones 3000 and are $70 and $75 respectively.

We would have no hesitation recommending the C532 to a small or home office. It is more than competent enough to handle even the most demanding print jobs, even image heavy ones.

With a decent duty cycle, long lasting toners the C532 would quite at home in a busy office environment. Anybody looking for an affordable color laser printer with quality finishing should look no further than the Lexmark C532.