Ricoh Aficio MP161L User Manual

							Operating Instructions
General Settings Guide
Read this manual carefully before you use this machine and keep it handy for future reference. For safe and correct use, be sure to read the
Safety Information in the Copy Reference before using the machine.
Getting Started
Combined Function Operations
User Tools ( System Settings )
Troubleshooting
Other Functions
Specifications1
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							Introduction
This manual contains detailed instructions and notes on the operation and use of this machine. For your
safety and benefit, read this manual carefully before using the machine. Keep this manual in a handy
place for quick reference.
Important
Contents of this manual are subject to change without prior notice. In no event will the company be li-
able for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages as a result of handling or oper-
ating the machine.
Notes:
Some illustrations in this manual might be slightly different from the machine.
Certain options might not be available in some countries. For details, please contact your local dealer.
Laser Safety:
This machine is considered a class 1 laser device, safe for office/EDP use. The machine contains a 5-
milliwatt, 760-800 nanometer wavelength, GaAIAs laser diode. Direct (or indirect reflected ) eye contact
with the laser beam might cause serious eye damage. Safety precautions and interlock mechanisms
have been designed to prevent any possible laser beam exposure to the operator.
The following label is attached on the back side of the machine.
Caution:
Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified in this manual
might result in hazardous radiation exposure.
Notes:
Certain types might not be available in some countries. For details, please contact your local dealer.
Two kinds of size notation are employed in this manual. With this machine refer to the metric version.
For good copy quality, the supplier recommends that you use genuine toner from the supplier.
The supplier shall not be responsible for any damage or expense that might result from the use of parts
other than genuine parts from the supplier with your office products. 
Power Source
220 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz, 4 A or more
Please be sure to connect the power cord to a power source as above. For details about power source,
see “Power Connection” in the Copy Reference. 
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Manuals for This Machine
The following manuals describe the operational procedures of this machine. For
particular functions, see the relevant parts of the manual.
Note
❒Manuals provided are specific to machine type.
❒ Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to view the manuals as a PDF file.
❖General Settings Guide (this manual)
Provides an overview of the machine and describes System Settings (paper
trays, Key Operator Tools, etc.), and troubleshooting.
❖Network Guide
Describes procedures for configuring the machine and computers in a net-
work environment.
❖Copy Reference
Describes operations, functions, and troubleshooting for the machines copier
function.
❖Printer/Scanner Reference
Describes system settings, functions, troubleshooting and operations for the
machines printer and scanner function.
❖Other Manuals
• Manuals for This Machine
Safety Information
 Quick Reference Copy Guide
 Quick Reference Printer / Scanner Guide
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Manuals for This Machine ...................................................................................... i
Copyrights and Trademarks ................................................................................. 1
Trademarks ................................................................................................................ 1
Information about Installed Software.......................................................................... 1
How to Read This Manual ..................................................................................... 8
ENERGY STAR Program ....................................................................................... 9
1. Getting Started
Guide to Components ......................................................................................... 11
Options ................................................................................................................. 13
External Options....................................................................................................... 13
Control Panel........................................................................................................ 14
Display ..................................................................................................................... 15
Reading the Display and Using Keys ....................................................................... 16
2. Combined Function Operations
Changing Modes .................................................................................................. 17
Multi-Access ......................................................................................................... 18
3. User Tools ( System Settings )
User Tools Menu ( System Settings )................................................................. 19
Accessing User Tools ( System Settings ) ........................................................ 21
Changing Default Settings ....................................................................................... 21
Quitting User Tools .................................................................................................. 22
Settings You Can Change with User Tools ....................................................... 23
 General Features .................................................................................................... 23
Tray Paper Settings ................................................................................................. 24
Timer Settings .......................................................................................................... 25
Key Operator Code .................................................................................................. 26
User Code ............................................................................................................. 30
Registering a New User Code.................................................................................. 30
Changing a User Code............................................................................................. 30
Deleting a User Code ............................................................................................... 31
Displaying the Counter for Each User Code ............................................................ 32
Printing the Counter for Each User Code................................................................. 32
Clearing the Counter ................................................................................................ 32
4. Troubleshooting
If Your Machine Does Not Operate As You Want.............................................. 33
x Clearing Misfeeds ........................................................................................... 35
Changing the Paper Size ..................................................................................... 37
Changing the Paper Size of the Paper Tray (Tray 1) ............................................... 37
Changing the Paper Size in the Paper Tray Unit (Tray 2)........................................ 38
Selecting the Paper Size with User Tools ................................................................ 40
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5. Other Functions
Other Functions ................................................................................................... 41
Displaying the Total Counter .................................................................................... 41
Changing the Language ........................................................................................... 41
6. Specifications
Main Unit ............................................................................................................... 43
Options ................................................................................................................. 46
Exposure Glass Cover ............................................................................................. 46
Auto Document Feeder capable of scanning both sides of a sheet (ARDF)............ 46
Paper Tray Unit (Tray 2) .......................................................................................... 47
Copy Paper ........................................................................................................... 48
Recommended Paper Sizes and Types................................................................... 48
Unusable Paper ....................................................................................................... 50
Paper Storage .......................................................................................................... 50
INDEX......................................................................................................... 51
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Copyrights and Trademarks
Trademarks
Microsoft®, Windows® and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Micro-
soft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Acrobat
® is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Bluetooth™ is a trademark of the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. (Special Interest Group)
and is used by RICOH Company Limited under license.
Copyright ©2001 Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
The Bluetooth Trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. USA.
Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and might
be trademarks of their respective companies. We disclaim any and all rights to
those marks.
The proper names of the Windows operating systems are as follows:
 The product name of Windows
® 95 is Microsoft® Windows® 95
 The product name of Windows
® 98 is Microsoft® Windows® 98
 The product name of Windows
® Me is Microsoft® Windows®  Millennium
Edition (Windows Me)
 The product names of Windows
® 2000 are as follows:
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
 The product names of Windows
® XP are as follows:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
 The product names of Windows Server
TM 2003 are as follows:
Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 Web Edition
 The product names of Windows NT
® 4.0 are as follows:
Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation 4.0
Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0
Information about Installed Software
expat
 The software including controller, etc. (hereinafter “software”) installed on
this product uses the expat Version 1.95.2 (hereinafter “expat”) under the con-
ditions mentioned below.
 The product manufacturer provides warranty and support to the software of
the product including the expat, and the product manufacturer makes the in-
itial developer and copyright holder of the expat, free from these obligations.
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 Information relating to the expat is available at:
http://expat.sourceforge.net/
Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Centre, Ltd. and Clark
Cooper.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the
Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, sub-
ject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AU-
THORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAG-
ES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFT-
WARE.
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NetBSD
1. Copyright Notice of NetBSD
For all users to use this product:
This product contains NetBSD operating system:
For the most part, the software constituting the NetBSD operating system is not
in the public domain; its authors retain their copyright.
The following text shows the copyright notice used for many of the NetBSD
source code. For exact copyright notice applicable for each of the files/binaries,
the source code tree must be consulted.
A full source code can be found at http://www.netbsd.org/.
Copyright © 1999, 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-
tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
ARedistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
of conditions and the following disclaimer.
BRedistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
CAll advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must
display the following acknowledgment:
This product includes software developed by The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
and its contributors.
DNeither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its contribu-
tors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND
CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MER-
CHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DIS-
CLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS
BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEM-
PLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMIT-
ED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CON-
TRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTH-
ERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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2. Authors Name List
All product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
The following notices are required to satisfy the license terms of the software
that we have mentioned in this document:
 This product includes software developed by the University of California,
Berkeley and its contributors.
 This product includes software developed by Jonathan R. Stone for the NetB-
SD Project.
This product includes software developed by the NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
and its contributors.
 This product includes software developed by Manuel Bouyer.
 This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum.
 This product includes software developed by Charles M. Hannum.
 This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou.
 This product includes software developed by TooLs GmbH.
 This product includes software developed by Terrence R. Lambert.
 This product includes software developed by Adam Glass and Charles Han-
num.
 This product includes software developed by Theo de Raadt.
 This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone and Jason R.
Thorpe for the NetBSD Project.
 This product includes software developed by the University of California,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.
 This product includes software developed by Christos Zoulas.
 This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou for
the NetBSD Project.
 This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg.
 This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
 This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone.
 This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone for the NetBSD
Project.
 This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies, Inc.
This product includes software developed by Frank van der Linden for the
NetBSD Project.
 This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by Frank
van der Linden.
 This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by Jason R.
Thorpe.
 The software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
 This product includes software developed by Chris Provenzano, the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, and contributors.
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