No-charge product enhancement features

These features provide support for adding languages, stronger security, and some frequently added job properties to your system. They also add the ability to work with the individual PDF documents inside a job and collect data about your system for reporting purposes.

These features are provided with the base product, but are not installed by default. They do not require an additional license.

Common Properties
The Common Properties feature adds a collection of job and document properties that are useful for transaction processing and tracking purposes. These job properties are not associated with specific step templates, but can be set in a workflow using the AssignJobValues step or the Manage job defaults action.
Cut Sheet Support for TASKalfa Feature
The Cut Sheet support for TASKalfa feature provides support for Kyocera TASKalfa 15000c production printers with the EFI Printing System 50 option (EFI Fiery DFE).
TASKalfa printer devices represent printers that can print PDF or Postscript files. They print jobs in PDF or Postscript format, including jobs converted to PDF or Postscript format.
The Cut Sheet support for TASKalfa feature adds the ability to create TASKalfa printer devices. This type of printer can accept PostScript or PDF files. If both formats of a file exist in the job's spool directory when the job is scheduled for printing, the file with the most recent time is sent to the printer. If a transform converts a PostScript file to PDF, the PDF format of the file is sent to the TASKalfa printer.
Language packs

Language packs include translations for the user interface and help system. Each language pack includes the translated files for one language. Supported languages are:

  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish

PDF Document Support

The PDF Document Support feature adds functions and objects that let you control and track individual documents in PDF jobs. The feature includes RICOH ProcessDirector Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. The plug-in lets you identify individual documents, extract data from the documents, and add enhancements such as barcodes, OMR marks, images, hidden areas, and text. Step templates let you add steps to your workflows that use the extracted data to sort, split, and group the documents into new jobs.

Reports

The Reports feature lets you capture selected job properties and printer status changes in a PostgreSQL database. To extract data and visualize it, you can use a business intelligence tool, such as Tableau.

Security

The Security feature provides advanced functions, including password requirements, that increase the security of user accounts. If you have a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Active Directory server, the feature lets you use LDAP user IDs and passwords to authenticate to RICOH ProcessDirector.

Parent topic: Features