The Aficio 2432 was not much different to the Aficio 1232 we reviewed about a year ago. It still prints at 32ppm in monochrome but is now twice as fast printing in colour. The Aficio 2432 prints, copies, and scans in colour, and faxes in monochrome. Like the Fuji Xerox, the Ricoh is best suited to mid-sized workgroups.The Aficio 2432 shipped with three paper trays each able to hold up to 500 sheets of paper. The top tray can only hold A4 paper while the bottom two trays can hold up to A3 paper. There is provision for a 2000-sheet paper tray that can be swapped with the third bottom tray to increase the total paper capacity to 3100 sheets. You can also add finishers, additional trays, and bins.
Unfortunately, the Ricoh doesn't ship with any management software that will allow you to keep a lid on the number of colour pages users print. You can enable and disable a user from printing colour, but if you want to have more control than that, you have to purchase a third-party application.
The Aficio 2432 was equal fastest in monochrome printing, while in colour it was clearly the fastest especially when printing in duplex mode. In copying there wasn't much of a difference between it and the Fuji Xerox. Print quality was generally very good, especially in plain black text, but it let itself down in printing photos. Even after tweaking the driver settings we were still unable to get near the photo quality of the Fuji Xerox.
| Product | Ricoh 2432C |
| Price | AU$19,470 tested; from AU$11,000 |
| Vendor | Ricoh |
| Phone | 02 8977 1111 |
| Web | www.ricoh.com.au |
| Interoperability |
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| Wide range of operating systems, hardware platforms, and networking protocols supported. | |
| Futureproofing |  |
| Fastest at printing both in colour and mono. | |
| ROI |  |
| Running costs pretty similar to that of Canon and Fuji Xerox; finisher not included. | |
| Service |  |
| Up to five years in service contract. | |
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hi there
good info sofar, mfd's could also have answering phone/machine etc or will ansa machine work seperately to mfds? sometimes ansa machines answer on faxes, how to avoid this?