![]() ![]() Black and pages generally look crisp, consistent and professional, but in every other respect, this printer disappoints. The Ricoh SP C261DNw does a good job of printing text documents with an attractively rich and dark finish. Colour documents take much too long to print and photos generally look too bright and too yellow.Īnd while the asking price undercuts some other print-only lasers, it also underperforms and the ‘starter’ toner cartridges that are included in the box will only last for 1,000 pages, compared to the usual 3,000 pages. The poor design, and frustrating user experience is not especially well reward either. We wasted lots of time working out how to select the right paper and print resolution and had to refer to Google, or the user manual many times. The user interface based around the tiny two-line mono display is cramped and the menu system is convoluted and unintuitive. It offers full wired and wireless connectivity so you can print from the Ricoh mobile app via Wi-Fi Direct, or from your PC with the supplied cable. It can churn out plain mono pages steadily at a reasonable speed and thanks to its deep paper tray it can keep on churning them out too.Īnd don’t forget that the paper capacity can be expanded to a maximum of 751 sheets. The Ricoh SP C261DNw makes a fine job of printing black text on plain paper, ensuring every character is rich and dark and crisp. The lightness, however, is at the expense of contrast and in general, images seem to be containing slightly too much yellow and photo quality merely average. Fonts in a different colour, however, suddenly look less well formed and under a magnifying glass, look ragged at the edges.Ĭolour documents look very bright and bold, while photos also appear pleasingly bright. ![]() ![]() Mono text looks dark and rich and clearly delineated at all font sizes, page after page. The printed results are actually rather good. It is also frustratingly slow to print the first page, slow enough to make you wonder if it is actually working, while printing consecutive pages takes longer than other laser printers in its class. The overall score reflects all of these parameters and overall value for money. We also calculate running costs, compare functionality and consider each product’s versatility, design and build quality. These twelve test pages include text of varying font sizes and colours, mixed image and text pages, a set of photos and a series of test patterns designed to assess sharpness, colour fidelity, contrast and grey scale. To compare print quality, we print out the same set of test documents on every machine. Rather than relying on the manufacturer’s quoted figures, we time the first page out and print speeds in single sheet and duplex mode using a standard ten-page document and a stopwatch app. UNIX (Ricoh Filter Phase 11) Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SCO OpenServer, RedHat Linux, IBM AIXġ7.48 x 25.91 x 19.Each printer we source for testing is measured on our test bench and the results are critically compared with every other model we have reviewed. TCP/IP (IPv4, IPv6), AppleTalk, IPX/ SPX (optional) Plain paper, recycled paper, middle thick paper, thick paper, thin paper, transparency, letterhead, labels, coated paper (glossy/semi-gloss/matte), waterproof, pre-printed, envelopes Standard: 550 sheets tray, 100 sheet bypass tray First print speed: 10 seconds color, 15 seconds monochrome ![]()
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