

The Ricoh C430dn did very well in all of our print quality benchmark testing usually finishing at or near the top. We found the color gradations to be smooth and the color vibrant. The print quality we produced at the 1200 dpi setting was very sharp on text and line art even on tiny details. It is there for ease of use as well as the new secure printing capabilities.

The numeric key pad next to the front panel display is a first for a single function machine. The printer drivers supplied for the C430dn also installed without a hitch. The four color toners that ship with the printer just snap into their slots and the imaging units were already installed. The printer was extremely easy to set up after it was unpacked. The new C430dn is built on a rugged 4th generation Ricoh engine that is ground breaking in several key areas and is coupled with a very advanced controller. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.The new Ricoh C430dn is the latest from this manufacturer and will eventually replace the extremely successful C420dn. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available. Added CAT (Catalog) files which were released from Microsoft (WHQL). Printing a "C6 Env." sized document at 1200 dpi might result in the page image being rotated 90 degrees. Problems with the content of the error messages shown when attempting modify Watermarks. Background color missing from behind cross-hatching in Visio 2000 documents. If the driver is run on an MUI version of Windows, the bottom part of the driver UI might be cut off. Adobe Reader v7.x jobs containing data that is outside of the printable area, trigger a driver bug that results in an application error and nothing being printed. Some of the images within a document might be shifted in relation to the positions of other images within the document. This caused some extended-ASCII to appear garbled or not print at all. The Japanese character set "Shift-JIS" might be applied to jobs that do not contain any Japanese characters. This occurred even if "Increase auto-keep settings for applications" was off. The print settings of the first Excel Worksheet are applied to all subsequent worksheets in the job. Inclusion of the ASCII character 0x13 (device control 3) in the PJL JOBNAME will result in garbled output.

Bidirectional communication might not work if another Ricoh printer driver of any PDL is already installed on the system. The "Restore Defaults" function will no longer work after use of the Printer Driver Editor's "Display/Do not Display" function.
