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Eco-friendly indicator


Eco-friendly indicator
Part of the new user interface available on GWNX enabled Ricoh multifunction products (MFPs) is an Information screen featuring the Eco friendly indicator. 
Displayed on the touch screen operation panel, it summarises the user’s individual usage status—such as duplex printing and paper reduction ratio—and has space for the administrator to configure a message. The administrator can set the time period for providing users with their progress—either weekly, monthly, or a custom period of time.
How does it work?
When user authentication is enabled, a user’s individual summary is displayed as soon as they log on to the MFP.
When user authentication is disabled, the summary provides data on the usage of the MFP rather than of an individual user. Without user authentication, the Information screen is displayed after the MFP has recovered from the Energy Saver Mode, or after an automatic system reset.
What information is included?
The Information screen is automatically displayed when a user logs on to the MFP with user authentication, giving an individual summary of:
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Total pages output 
Reduction in paper use since the previous period
Use of duplexing 
Use of Combine print and copy (Layout, N up)
Use of colour vs black and white jobs—colour MFPs only.
The administrator sets the time period, which provides users with their progress comparisons—either weekly, monthly, or a custom period of time.
Administrators can use Web Image Monitor to download Eco-friendly indicator information for each user. This data can be used for output management. 
Using the custom message as a reminder 
The custom message set by the administrator, can be up 180 characters—3 lines with up to 60 characters per line.  
It is an ideal way to remind users to reduce the frequency of printing in colour, or to print and copy in duplex to reduce individual paper consumption. They could even remind users to set duplex printing as their default in their printer driver, if they haven’t already done so.
Are all jobs with paper output counted?
All jobs with paper output—print, copy, and fax—except certain combine print and copy jobs are counted. Combine jobs such as two pages in one aren’t counted as part of the Combine Utilisation figure when they’re sent:
From Mac operating systems
Using the PostScript 3 driver from Windows operating systems
From Fiery controllers
As a Stored print job from the document server.

Benefits for the customer
Helps raise awareness of how to reduce colour output volumes and paper use, save costs, and reduce environmental impact
Each user is automatically informed via the custom message, of company policies related to colour output, duplex and layout printing
Ricoh provides customers with the Eco friendly indicator at no extra cost.

Scripted by:-


Nandini Ramesh 
Marketing Manager

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