Demonstrating Mobile Print

Careful......printing to ricoh devices from mobile........sucks.  Its a real weakness.  If a customer asks I will set it up or demonstrate but its not something I would draw attention to until Ricoh gets its act together.   Air print may work or it may not work.....some machines do but most don't.  Ricoh Print & Scan app SUCKS.....yes all caps and bold sort of SUCKS.  Ricoh Smart Device Connector app doesn't seem to work at all (been playing with that one this morning with no success).

Your best bet for mobile print........hate to say it.......... is to install competitor Samsung's Mobile Print app and set up the printer as an IP printer and select the generic PCL driver all the way at the bottom of the list.  This app is tremendously better than Ricoh's own app.

Another good mobile app is Print Hammermill.  Again, far better than Ricoh's app but may or may not print in color on color devices.

I wouldn't bother showing Ricoh's Mobile Print App. It is  terrible. Fisher is right, download one of the other ones to use. 

I also have found that very few of my customers actually use the mobile print app after I show them how to use it.

Right, I agree with your input and it is  very helpful.  However, I plan to show Collobos Presto which for about $1 a day would allow customers to print to any of their network printers from any mobile device (Android or Apple) using the native print dialog.  

I'd like to explain to the customer that there has been a huge amount of growth in mobile usage and more and more there are becoming business processes that rely on tablets and mobile devices.  For about a dollar a day this solution would simplify everything and allow their workers to do what they do best.

They want to print and we want the clicks.  Win-win.  If it isn't worth $1 a day, then there isn't a serious need in my opinion.  Once they see how well it works if a competitor shows them something that is app based I think they will agree that the Presto solution is worth it.

Haven't you also just demonstarted to them that they don't have to buy your MFP solution in order to be able to mobile print?

That would be a concern if the only reason we were talking about an MFP was for mobile printing.  I agree, If the only reason they are looking at an MFP is for mobile printing this would not be a good solution.

For printing to any printer in an office its hard to beat the free Print Hammermill app.  

That hammermill app is awesome!!!  Just tried it and it worked without a hitch

Art, did the printer you printed to have PostScript?  I tried it to a Savin C2525 that does not have PostScript and there is no generic PCL driver...also, there are no color drivers.  Am I missing something?  I thought I had missed something when I found I could connect to my server and the printers shared from there...however, it doesn't recognize the drivers.  This free app doesn't compare to Presto I'm afraid.

I still say you get what you pay for.

no, I connected to my ricoh  MP C2003SP and it does not have PS.  However the color picture did come out as black, I did not have the time to see if I selected something wrong or maybe it only prints black?  I need to check

Hey, you're right.  I was able to successfully print to the Savin MPC2003 also.  However, even though I selected Color it printed in B&W.  I have to say it is a good app for free and I'll keep it in my tool bag.

The Samsung App will let you print in color to your Ricoh color devices.

I disagree about the Ricoh app, I use it on a S5 and it works smooth. When I do a demo I take a picture of the customer and hit share then print, takes about 15 seconds from picture to output and everyone goes ooohhhhh ahhhhh.  It is impressive but I suspect people will never use it.  Mobile print is for most a solution looking for a problem.

Now try and print an email for that customer.

Printing an email seems to come up every time. That question may be the death of me.

I use Samsung Print Services for the non- shareable apps.  Prints e-mail from G-mail and the Android Mail in a basic format.