Place Printing with Locked Print

Place Printing with Locked Print

This document outlines the steps involved in printing a document using Ricoh’s Locked Print function. The Locked Print function allows a user to enter a password for his or her print job when sending documents to a remote printer. Locked Print processes the print job at the MultiFunction Printer (MFP), but does not print the job until the user arrives at the machine and enters the required print job password.

Locked Print is useful when printing documents of a sensitive nature to shared printers (password matters). It is also a convenient feature when you are printing from a remote location to your local shared MFP and you would like your print jobs held until you arrive at the MFP (password doesn’t matter).

The downside – print jobs that you do not “manually” release to be printed will remain in the printer’s memory. Ricoh service people will not know your password and cannot remove old print jobs. Hence, our Ricoh representative suggested that everyone simply use “123” as his or her password. This works as long as you don't care that a colleague (or student "in the know") could print the document.

The next three pages were provided directly by Ricoh. The images did not match for me, so I captured a few screen images, added some pictures of the MFP interface itself and created the accompanying PowerPoint.

Paul Mullins

To send a “Locked” print job, choose the Ricoh device and click on “Properties”

Click on the “Down arrow” beside “Normal Print” under “Job Type”

Select the “Locked Print” option

Click on “Details”

Type in your first initial, last name to be displayed on the Ricoh copier and a 4-8 digit number for a password

Click on “OK” to print your “Locked Print” job

At the Ricoh Copier touch screen, follow the step by step procedure to release your “Locked” print job:

STEP 1: Press the “Printer” button on the control panel

STEP 2: Press the “Print Jobs” button on the touch screen

STEP 3: Press your print job listed on the touch screen and press “Print”

STEP 4: Type in your 4 to 8 digit password with the number keys and press “OK”

Directions are a composition of two Ricoh documents with additional images – PMM 9/15/10