Ricoh FAX5600L manual 176, Power Saver

OTHER ADVANCED FEATURES

Power Saver

Overview

Laser printing requires the application of heat to bond toner to the printer paper. For incoming messages to be output quickly, a heating element inside the machine must be kept hot. This may cause your electricity bills to rise.

The Power Saver feature lets you program timers to switch this heating element on and off. This will help you to reduce overnight electricity costs. It also means that anyone wandering through the office after working hours will not be able to casually read your incoming fax messages, because incoming messages are not printed while the heating element is switched off.

❐If a fax message comes in while the heating element is switched off, the message is stored in the memory. When the heating element switches back on, the message is automatically printed.

❐While the heating element is disabled, all incoming calls are refused when the memory fills up.

❐If you wish to print a fax message while the heating element is off, you can temporarily override the timer and print the message. The timer will activate again automatically a few minutes after you have printed your message.

As a typical example, you could program the heating element inside the printer to stay off at night and over the weekend. (You can program different settings for every day of the week.)

To use Power Saver, you must:

❐Program the timers for each day of the week.

❐Switch the Power Saver feature on.

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