I thought I'd share my frustrations with Sharp copiers.
First of all milions of options on the admin web page but no access or view of the console. There is some obscure way to connect VNC (!!!) to a copier, but so far no success.
There isn't even a graphical status of supplies !
The worst of all is that the color 4101 has the color copy button right there, perfectly positioned for any copy job. Well it's only 7c per color copy, not 1c for b&w.
I've been trying to block some users from being able to print color. So far after days of trying with Pitney Bowes and calling Sharp no go. We used to have two printers on the print server per Xerox copier. One only B&W, the other color, pointing to the same machine. The color had an AD group assigned to it and only those users could print color. This is not possible (apparently ) with Sharp so good luck trying to prevent users from printing color. In short I am NOT happy with that hardware and I would definately recommend looking at something else. Also before you commit to a copier/printer solution look at the above issues. One would be easy management through admin page, the other blocking color printing. The copiers are overcomplicated and have the feel of the 1970s, when a copy was $1.50 or something. Fyi there is 850 pages crappy manual for the color 4101. You need a year off to learn all that and still it wouldn't do the basic things. Good luck.
First of all milions of options on the admin web page but no access or view of the console. There is some obscure way to connect VNC (!!!) to a copier, but so far no success.
There isn't even a graphical status of supplies !
The worst of all is that the color 4101 has the color copy button right there, perfectly positioned for any copy job. Well it's only 7c per color copy, not 1c for b&w.
I've been trying to block some users from being able to print color. So far after days of trying with Pitney Bowes and calling Sharp no go. We used to have two printers on the print server per Xerox copier. One only B&W, the other color, pointing to the same machine. The color had an AD group assigned to it and only those users could print color. This is not possible (apparently ) with Sharp so good luck trying to prevent users from printing color. In short I am NOT happy with that hardware and I would definately recommend looking at something else. Also before you commit to a copier/printer solution look at the above issues. One would be easy management through admin page, the other blocking color printing. The copiers are overcomplicated and have the feel of the 1970s, when a copy was $1.50 or something. Fyi there is 850 pages crappy manual for the color 4101. You need a year off to learn all that and still it wouldn't do the basic things. Good luck.