{"id":516,"date":"2016-01-22T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=516"},"modified":"2016-01-22T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:44:06","slug":"online-portal-for-administering-ricoh-printersmfds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2016\/01\/22\/online-portal-for-administering-ricoh-printersmfds\/","title":{"rendered":"Online portal for administering Ricoh printers\/MFDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately 90 Ricoh devices supported by Ricoh in one of\u00a0two ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remotely monitored by their automatic system \u2013 toner is automatically supplied and click counts remotely read.<\/li>\n<li>A department staff member monitors the device and contacts Ricoh to provide necessary information, order toner or report breakdowns.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To improve the contact options for those responsible for departmental multi-functional devices (MFDs), Ricoh has updated their on-line portal. \u00a0This now allows on-line ordering of toner, the reporting of faults, and click counts. Owners\/ administrators simply need to register an account and associate any number of devices using their\u00a0serial number. \u00a0This site is being made available on an \u2018opt-in\u2019 basis.<\/p>\n<p>This could make device administration easier. \u00a0It is quick to intuitive to use and could eliminate the need for phone calls to Ricoh. \u00a0Device administrators are encouraged to review the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/files\/2016\/01\/eService_user_guide.pdf\" rel=\"\">eService user guide<\/a> and to consider using the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately 90 Ricoh devices supported by Ricoh in one of\u00a0two ways: Remotely monitored by their automatic system \u2013 toner is automatically supplied and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2016\/01\/22\/online-portal-for-administering-ricoh-printersmfds\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137335,722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}