Configuring the Ricoh Printer

Only staff and faculty can print to the Ricoh.

The current model is a Ricoh MP C4504.

A note on Color Printing

The printer is capable of color printing however only for certain users. If you send a print job with color selected and you do not have access it will display as an authentication error.

Windows Setup

  1. Download the PCL6 Driver for Universal Print Ricoh dmg file here. The PCL 6 V4 Driver for Universal Print will not work, so be mindful of which one you choose.

  2. Double click the downloaded file. You will be prompted to unzip it to your temp folder. This is fine.

  3. Use the Windows search bar to navigate to your computer’s “Printers and Scanners”.

  4. Click “Add Device”.

  5. A potentially long list of printers will appear. Scroll to the bottom of this list of new (to you) printers. In between this list and the list of printers you have already connected to, click on “Add manually” on the right side.

  6. In the window that opens, select “Add a printer using an IP address or hostname”, then click “Next”.

  7. Select the device type TCP/IP device. You’ll be prompted for an IP address. If you’re trying to connect to the Ricoh in CF, use 140.160.30.70. If you’re trying to connect to the Ricoh in KB, use 140.160.30.71. This will also populate as the port name. This is fine. Uncheck the box for querying the printer and auto-selecting the driver. Click “Next”.

  8. After your computer finds the printer, click the “Have Disk” button. This will bring up a box asking to browse to the location of the printer driver you downloaded and unzipped in steps 1 and 2. Browse to the location of these files. If you did not change the location of the download, it will be in C:\temp\z03060L16. Select the disk1 subdirectory of your unzipped driver and click “Open”. Then click “Ok”.

  9. Click “Next” and rename the printer to whatever makes the most sense to you.

  10. The printer will be added and you’ll be prompted for sharing. Select “Do Not Share”. Click “Next”, then “Finish”.

  11. You’ll see the printer appear in your “Printers and Scanners”. Navigate to it and open its printing preferences.

  12. At the top of printing preferences next to “Job Type” click “User Code Settings”. Enter your printer code and click “Ok”. If you do not have your printer code please contact CS Support.

  13. Change your ink color preferences from “Color” to “Black and White”. Click “Apply” and then “Ok”.

  14. Voila! Print a test page and if you have any problems, feel free to reach out to CS Support for troubleshooting.

Linux Setup

Where do I get Ricoh drivers?

If you find you need the drivers during this process they can be downloaded here.

Debian Setup

These instructions are likely work for other Debian-based Linux Distributions, like Ubuntu or Mint. To add printers, you will need credentials for a user that is part of the lpadmin group. For example, the root user should be part of lpadmin.

To add a user to lpadmin, run the following command from a terminal:

sudo usermod -aG lpadmin $USER

Please let our group know if you need help making you sudoer on your faculty workstation.

  1. Download this .ppd file: ricoh.ppd

  2. In a browser go to http://localhost:631/ to open the CUPS web interface.

  3. Click on “Admin” at the top of the page.

  4. Click on “Add Printer”

  5. Select “AppSocket/HP JetDirect” from the list.

  6. Enter the connection details. For example, Connection: socket://ricoh.cs.wwu.edu

  7. Click “Continue”

  8. Click on “Choose File” and select the .ppd file that you downloaded in step 1.

  9. Click “Set Printer Options” NOTE: We need to set all the options we need before selecting “Set Default Options”

  10. For “Options Installed”, change Internal Tray 2 to “installed.” For “Finisher,” select “Finisher SR3210”

  11. Lastly, we enter the unique Department Office issued User Code. Contact CS.support@wwu.edu if you need help looking up your code.

    • Click on “Job Log”, select “Custom UserCode”, and enter the code provided by CS Support or CSCI Department Office.

  12. Finally, click “Set Default Options”. Try printing out a single page file to check that it works.

Apple Setup

  1. Download the Ricoh dmg file here

  2. Run the .dmg on the machine to install the ppd file

  3. Open the System Preferences and go to Printers & Scanners

  4. Press the little ‘+’ sign to add a printer (remove any other “Ricoh” printers that don’t work)

  5. Enter the ip 140.160.30.70 into the Address line

  6. The program should automatically find the ppd you installed earlier

  7. Have the faculty open a print dialog for any file

  8. Find the Job Log options in a dropdown menu somewhere

  9. Enter the faculty’s username into User ID and their faculty print code into the User Code after checking the checkbox to use a print code

Setup via a PPD File

If you prefer to use a ppd file, we have uploaded a file which is linked below. Please right-click on the link to save the file:

ricoh.ppd

It is already set to default to black and white printing.

Other settings also are needed: UserCode, UserId

If a user wants all of their jobs set to code release by default the setting is: JobType=LockedPrint

For the code release one would also need to set LockedPrintPassword to their code.