RICOH AFICIO SG 2100N

"Ricoh has been utilizing its Geljet innovation for quite a long while – PC Advisor explored a before Ricoh Aficio GX3000 model seven years back in 2007. The innovation uses quick drying gels instead of the water-based or pigmented inks utilized as a part of most inkjet printers. Past Geljet printers were pointed solidly at corporate clients, yet Ricoh has now dispatched another scope of Aficio printers that are more reduced and less costly, in the trust of venturing into the home and little business markets. As per Ricoh, the benefit of this innovation is that the thick gel-based inks don't ""seep"" into the permeable filaments of minimal effort office papers like traditional inks, and this permits them to deliver better results for photographs and shading representation when utilizing conventional office paper. Costs for the new Aficio SG reach begin at £60 for the SG2100N investigated here, so starting price tag is surely inside of the financial backing of home clients and little organizations. It's a genuinely essential printer, with no implicit scanner or duplicating capacities, and no twofold sided printing. In any case, to be reasonable, there aren't numerous printers that incorporate those components for £60. The absence of Wi-Fi network may be all the more a misfortune, as it implies that you're constrained to wired associations by means of USB or the printer's ethernet port. The SG 2100N performed well in pace tests. Ricoh quotes paces of 12 pages for each moment for both mono and shading printing, and our test reports came near that, creating paces of 11 ppm for both plain content archives and PDF records containing content and shading representation. That is great execution for a printer costing just £60, and with its 250-sheet paper plate, 10,000-page month to month obligation cycle, and two-year on location guarantee, the SG 2100N could make a decent workhorse printer. We were satisfied to see that content quality had enhanced subsequent to the last time we audited one of the Geljet printers. Plain content wasn't exactly as fresh and dark as that of a laser printer, however we preferred the smooth blueprints, particularly on italic textual styles, and general content quality was impeccably satisfactory for everyday work, for example, printing letters or school reports. Printing shading representation on plain paper was something of a blended pack. Utilizing the printer's default 600 x 300 dpi determination, it took 17 seconds to deliver an A4 shading photograph on plain office paper. The outcomes weren't terrible – somewhat grainy, however it was recognizable that the photograph yield did not have the banding that frequently besets customary inkjet printers. Going up to the printer's added '1200 dpi' determination and most noteworthy quality settings backed it off to an entire 2 minutes for the same A4 photograph, however the picture was more keen and clearer, and with brighter hues. You're clearly not going to get lab-quality photographs when utilizing customary office paper, however in the event that you have to print shading publications or fliers on plain paper then the SG 2100N has an edge over the majority of its inkjet rivals. Shockingly, the SG 2100N is let around its high running expenses. The issue here is that the SG 2100N does exclude an alternative to utilize high return ink cartridges that can diminish running expenses. Its standard cyan, fuchsia, yellow and dark cartridges all expense about £25 each, however keep going for around 600 pages. That works out at very nearly 4.2p for every page for mono printing and up to 16.7p for four-shading prints. The Aficio SG 2100N gives great execution to such a reasonable printer, and Ricoh's Geljet innovation works well when printing shading representation on plain paper. Tragically, its high running expenses make it harder to prescribe – notwithstanding for fundamental mono printing. "