Configuring to send media product IDs to Ricoh PDF printers
If the control unit of a Ricoh PDF printer can use product IDs to select media, you can configure RICOH ProcessDirector to send product IDs.
- If the Media to use property for your printer is set to Printer, set the product ID values on the printer media objects:
- Click the Administration tab.
- In the left pane, click .
- Right-click the first media object that you want to assign a product ID, and select Properties.
- Type a value for the Product ID property.
- Click OK.
- Repeat these steps for each printer media object that you want to assign a product ID.
- If the Media to use property for your Ricoh PDF printers is set to System and all of them use the same product IDs to match media, assign a product ID to each
system media object:
- Click the Administration tab.
- In the left pane, click .
- Right-click the first media object that you want to assign a product ID, and select Properties.
- Type a value for the Product ID property.
- Click OK.
- Repeat these steps for each system media object that you want to assign a product ID.
- If the Media to use property for your Ricoh PDF printers is set to System and some of them use different product IDs to match media, create a
mediamap.cfg
file. Use an editor that saves text in UTF-8 format:- On the first line, type the Printer name value, a comma, the Media name for the media object, a comma, and the Product ID value for the media object.
For example, if the printer name is RicohPro9110, the media name is A4 Blue, and the media product ID is 39872, type:
- RicohPro9110,A4 Blue,39872
- On the next line, type another set of values for Printer name, Media name, and Product ID.
For example: RicohPro9110,A4 Yellow,39865
For ease of reference, we recommend that you keep all the lines for each printer together in the file.
- After you type the lines required to list the media names and product IDs for the
first printer, type the lines required for the next printer.
This
mediamap.cfg
file maps three media names to product IDs for the Ricoh Pro 9110 printer. The file maps four media names to product IDs for the Ricoh Pro 8120 printer:- RicohPro9110,A4 Blue,39872
- RicohPro9110,A4 Yellow,39865
- RicohPro9110,A4 White,39798
- RicohPro8120,A4 Blue,239872
- RicohPro8120,A4 Ivory,239823
- RicohPro8120,A4 White,239805
- RicohPro8120,A4 Recycled,239910
- Name the file
mediamap.cfg
and save it in theC:\aiw\aiw1\config
directory as a text file in UTF-8 format.
- On the first line, type the Printer name value, a comma, the Media name for the media object, a comma, and the Product ID value for the media object.