Ricoh Embedded Print Director 1 MFP License

John, check with us in Jax. I believe we have successfully installed the embedded software and demoed the product already.

Yes, it installs on each machine. You will need a Java card installed on each copier before you can install it.

It is not that hard to install, although one issue we ran into was that the latest version of the software seemed to not install, we had to drop back one version, then it worked just fine.

As far as how it works, from the customer perspective, they get to the copier and it asks them for a code and they enter it and then can use the copier as normal.

One limitation of the User limits is this:

Let's say you limit the code to 500 copies.

Customer walks up and enters their code and runs 499 copies. That's within the limit so that's fine. Customer walks away.

Next week the customer shows up and logs in, they have 1 copy left so the machine authorizes them. Then they make 10,000 copies and walk away.

The balance in the admin utility will show that they are 9,999 over their copy limit, but once the machine authorizes them, they can make as many copies as they want, it doesn't stop them.

If this is an employee who will be at work tomorrow, it's not a big deal, but if it is a walk-up customer or similar situation, it could be an issue.

another note, this will work on a mac network, however they will need to have a pc to run the admin software.

They fixed the account limit bug with the latest release.

That must have been very recently then. I spoke with them about this two weeks ago today and they acknowledged the issue and said they didn't know of a way around it at that time.