When warm, a first page of black text arrived in 16 seconds and the printer went on to reach 16.9 pages per minute (ppm) over our mono 25-page test, close enough to Ricoh's claimed 20ppm. When printing from a PC, the SP C252SF isn't particularly quick, especially when waking itself up: it took 50 seconds to crank out a single page after a lengthy period of sleep. Similarly, although the printer supports mobile printing through iPrint and Ricoh's Print&Scan app, on this model scanning to a mobile device isn't possible.
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There's no print option, though, and looking in the manual it appears that the port supports only PictBridge printing from devices such as a camera, which is an odd choice for an office-orientated MFP. It's easy to insert a USB drive into the covered USB port at the left, then make direct scans to it - even if the printer is busy delivering a job.
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Three action buttons below the screen line up with context-sensitive options, but these aren't always used - for example, during copying two buttons remain idle while one is used to select duplex settings changing common options such as the copy count or density involves diving into the full menu. The control panel is generally not difficult to use, but we didn't always find it intuitive.
At the right is a lever which opens up the entire front of the printer, giving unusually generous access to remove any paper jams.Īlthough this is a smart-looking MFP, it gets a bit busy around the control panel, which comprises a mono display surrounded by a raft of buttons. Another quirk is that paper is fed upwards through the front of the printer and ejected away from you into the output tray most laser printers are orientated the other way around.
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After some trial and error we discovered that pages in the cassette are printed on the top side, while it's the bottom side when using the bypass. When loading paper, we noticed that there weren't any orientation markings in either the main 250-sheet paper cassette or the single-page bypass feed built into the printer's front panel. After a bit of head scratching, we discovered that this button in fact locks the scanner bed in one of its three fore/aft positions, and that what initially looked like a paper stop in the printer's output tray was the consumables access lever we were after. There's always plenty of tape, seals and foam to pull out of a new laser printer, but one particular bit disappeared into the gap between the white side panel and the black upper body, right next to a button which we assumed would give access to the consumables. We found the physical setup of this device a bit confusing. Best printer deals 2021: Our favourite discounts on inkjet, laser and all-in-one printers