Ricoh Aficio 3260C - Manual (Page 2)

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as its new toner bag technology, which is environmentally friendly. Although
the unit’s suggested retail price tag is among the highest when compared to
business color models in this speed range tested to date, BLI recommends the
Aficio 3260C for monthly volumes of up to 100,000 impressions.
 The Aficio 3260C proved to be highly reliable throughout its 150,000-impres-
sion durability test. Although it misfed 13 times for a misfeed rate of one per
11,538 impressions, no service of any kind was required.
 The unit’s photoconductor yield of 300,000 impressions is competitive for
business color models in this speed range tested to date.
 Up to nine copy jobs can be programmed ahead while a print or copy job is
in progress. Some other devices in this speed range enable the programming
ahead of more jobs or an unlimited number of copy jobs.
— The user must select the New Job key, which is small and may be over-
looked, to program the next copy job, whereas some systems don’t require
users to press a key.
 The number of print jobs that can be sent to the Aficio 3260C is limited only
by memory capacity.
 Up to nine copy jobs can always be programmed, regardless of how many
print jobs may already be in the queue.
 The next copy job can be programmed once all the pages of the previous
copy job have been scanned. However, a scan job can be programmed ahead
while the pages of the copy job are still being scanned.
 An administrator can establish a priority mode, which can either be copy,
print, the function that corresponds to the function currently on the control
panel display or the order in which jobs are sent. Interleave, in which the
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