BUYERS LABORATORY TEST REPORT

Imagistics 2500 MFP Multifunctional

 

 

TEST RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS continued

Administrative utilities: Administrative utilities include an embedded Web utility and the AXIS print server, which offers limited administrative capabilities, such as the ability to configure network settings and view a brief temporary job log of completed jobs. Also, see “Web-based adminis- tration.”

Auto run for administrative utility/print driver installation: Yes/Yes.

Job log/accounting: Yes/Yes. The Web utility offers tracking for print jobs.

Password protection/access rights: Yes. The Web utility is password-protected.

Device status: No.

Document manipulation: No.

Automatic port creation: Yes. The port is created by entering an IP address via the AXIS IP Installer, which creates a port.

Network configuration from control panel/utility/Web: No/ Yes/Yes.

Manipulate order of print jobs in queue/print priority levels: No.

Reprint stored job without reRIPping: No.

Job status: No. The only information available is a list of completed jobs from the Web page.

Remote manipulation of device/print job settings: No/No. A utility is offered for parallel and USB users to make changes remotely.

Multiple-device monitoring: No.

File downloading: No.

Consumables monitoring: No.

Preview or thumbnail image of file: No.

Web-based administration: Yes, via the network print server Web utility, which offers password protection and the ability to make remote network changes, but doesn’t offer status information.

Imagistics Model 2500 MFP Web Utility

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