Ricoh Aficio SP C221N Color Laser Printer

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Ricoh Aficio SP C221N Color Laser Printer. 21ppm for Monochrome and Color prints.

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Customized for small offices, small workgroups, and single-user environments, the Ricoh Aficio SP C221N Color Laser Printer is designed to bring high-volume color technology to your desktop at an affordable price. This sleek, streamlined color laser printer delivers exceptional color and sensational speed, printing 21 pages each minute in both full color and black & white.

The Ricoh Aficio SP C221N Color Laser Printer offers: Outstanding 2400 x 600 dpi color prints at 21 pages per minute. Easy-to-read status display. Support for Pantone and PCL5c/6 and PostScript3. Network capability with both USB and Ethernet connections. Mac and PC compatibility.

Change cartridges easily and with no mess thanks to a smart flip-up design. View Larger

Print sharp text and vibrant colors at speeds up to 21 pages per minute. (Shown with optional 500-sheet TK1010 paper feed unit.) View larger. View ports.

Award-Winning Color Technology
The Ricoh Aficio SP C221N brings Ricoh's award-winning high-volume color technology right to your desktop. You can print reports, Web pages, presentations and whatever else your business requires with crisp text and vibrant colors. It offers pantone support and provides PCL5c/6 and PostScript3 drivers for resolutions of up to an exceptional 2400 x 600 dpi.

The SP C221N will print your first page--whether it's black & white or color--in only 14 seconds, and the remainder of your job will print at a brisk 21 pages per minute. With this speed and performance, there's no reason to be tied to your monochrome printer; by upgrading to Ricoh's color laser-quality printing, you'll have quick, clean and crisp text and images every time.

Easy to Use and Maintain
The last thing you need is to concern yourself with maintaining and troubleshooting your printer. The SP C221N is designed to keep you focused on your business by offering outstanding, easy-to-use features.

A user-friendly, at-a-glance status display helps keep your workflow moving, while the easy-to-read control panel features an alert light for error notification and LED indicators that tell you when supplies need to be replenished. Mac and PC compatible, the SP C221N features Ricoh's Status Image Monitor software, which enables you to check supply levels and change settings from the convenience of your desktop via the Web.

An easy-to-access top-loading configuration keeps the task of changing cartridges quick and easy. Easy to set up and simple to maintain, the C221N uses convenient "All-In-One" cartridges with a no-mess design that allows for one-handed replacement and simplifies inventory and storage. Each black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridge has a print yield of 2,000 pages at 5% coverage.

The user-friendly status display keeps workflow moving. View larger.

Compact, Complementary Design for Small Workplaces
The SP C221N was designed with the small and home office in mind. It measures only 16.0 x 18.0 x 12.8 inches, which means that you can easily place it any area where space is at a premium. This network-ready printer offers both USB 2.0 and 10/100Base-TX Ethernet connections, and comes with a standard 250-page tray and one-sheet bypass tray. By adding the optional TK1010 Paper Feed Unit, you can boost the paper capacity of the printer to 750 sheets.

The printer is also designed to complement the modern look of today's PCs, with a soft-curve design and two-tone coloring that will add an elegant touch to any office setting. And its back cover is specially designed to keep any unsightly cables out of view.

Features
The SP C221N offers a wide range of paper- and energy-saving features that will help you do your part to keep the world green. An "Energy Star Partner" appliance, this Restriction of Hazardous Substances Compliant (RoHS) appliance features Quick Start-Up (QSU) Technology, a power-saving sleep mode, and combine copy mode. It has also been designed to keep noise levels and ozone emissions to a minimum.

The SP C221N is backed by a 1-year warranty.

Choose Your Ricoh SP222DN Series Printers
	SP C220N	SP C221N	SP C222DN
Output Speed	16-ppm Full-color 16-ppm Black & white	21-ppm Full-color 21-ppm Black & white	21-ppm Full-color 21-ppm Black & white
Controller Type	Dynamic Data Stream Technology [DDST] (GDI/Quartz)	PS3, PCL	PS3, PCL
CPU Speed	192 MHz	300 MHz	300 MHz
Std/Max Memory	64MB/64MB RAM	128MB/640MB RAM	128MB/640MB RAM
PDL Support	DDST	PCL 5c, PCL 6, PostScript3 emulation	PCL 5c, PCL 6, PostScript3 emulation
Standard Interfaces	USB 2.0 10/100Base-TX Ethernet	USB 2.0 10/100Base-TX Ethernet	USB 2.0, 10/100Base-TX Ethernet, USB Host I/F for PictBridge
Std. Paper Supply	250-sheet Standard Tray + 1-sheet Bypass Tray	250-sheet Standard Tray + 1-sheet Bypass Tray	250-sheet Standard Tray + 1-sheet Bypass Tray
Opt. Paper Supply	None	500-sheet Paper Feed Unit	500-sheet Paper Feed Unit
Duplexing	Manual	Manual	Automatic
PANTONE Support	No	Yes	Yes
Toner	black / cyan / magenta / yellow	black / cyan / magenta / yellow	black / cyan / magenta / yellow

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