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MP C6503SP A3 colour MFP

  • Copy, print, scan, optional fax
  • Prints up to 65 ppm
  • 1,200 x 4,800 dpi
  • 8,100-sheet max input

Boost office productivity with high speed, high quality colour printing, copying, scanning and faxing. The MP C6503SP delivers production speeds for busy offices.

  1. Outstanding quality  
    Ultra fine toner with wide colour gamut produced professional looking results.
  2. Power under the hood  
    Ricoh's super fast internal processor and controller manages workflow and accounts for usage.

Production printing, compact size

Print high volume, high value transactional documents for a fast return on investment. Designed for everyday use with the Smart Operational Panel that simplifies complex printing tasks. In-line options like folding, punching, stapling and booklet making, combined with production-like colour, delivers professional finished documents.

Boost office productivity with high speed, high quality colour printing, copying, scanning and faxing. The MP C6503SP delivers production speeds for busy offices.

Designed for brilliance

Adding colour to customer documents can help improve response rates, simply by adding colour to logos or to highlight an offer. Impressive results come with MP C6503SP’s accurate font-back registration and high resolution output. The imaging system uses advanced technology to drive high resolution output without slowing down.


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  • Copy, print, scan, optional fax
  • Prints up to 65 ppm
  • 1,200 x 4,800 dpi
  • 8,100-sheet max input

Specifications

Functions
Copy, print, scan, optional fax
Colour
Yes
HDD
640 GB (320 GB x 2)
240 GB—space available on each HDD
Memory - standard
4 GB
Operation panel
10.1-inch Smart Operation Panel
Physical dimensions (WxDxH)—mainframe
750 x 880 x 1,225 mm
Weight—mainframe
250 kg or less
Standard input capacity (sheets)
3,700
Maximum input capacity (sheets)
8,100
Maximum output capacity (sheets)
3,500
Paper input configuration - standard
1,250-sheet x 2 tandem tray, 2 x 550-sheet paper input trays, 100-sheet bypass tray, 220-sheet SPDF, Duplex unit
Supported media

Standard paper input tray 1
Plain paper1, recycled paper, colour paper, special paper 1–3, letterhead, pre-printed paper, pre-punched paper, bond paper, card stock, thin paper, plain paper 1–2, middle thick, thick paper 1–4

Standard paper input trays 2 and 3 
Plain paper1, recycled paper, colour paper, special paper 1–3, letterhead, pre-printed paper, pre-punched paper, bond paper, card stock, tab stock, envelope, thin paper, plain paper 1–2, middle thick, thick paper 1–4

Note: Middle thick and thick paper 1–4 are supported for tab stock and envelopes. The optional Tab sheet holder is required to feed tab sheets from trays 2 and 3.

Bypass tray 
Plain paper1, recycled paper, colour paper, special paper 1-3, letterhead, pre-printed paper, pre-punched paper, bond paper, card stock, tab stock, envelope, OHP transparencies, label, thin paper, plain paper 1–2, middle thick, thick paper 1–4

Note: Middle thick and thick paper 1–4 are supported for tab stock and envelopes.

1—Not displayed as paper type

Maximum paper size
13" x 19.2"
Media weight (g/m2)
52–300
Interfaces - standard
Mainframe
10Base-T/100Base-Tx/1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet)
USB Host Type A2—2 ports
Card slot—1 slot, supports controller accessories 

Smart Operation Panel

IEEE 802.11b/g/n (Wireless LAN)1—2.4 GHz band only
Bluetooth 4.0¹
SD card slot— supports SDHC memory card
USB Host Type A—for USB Flash memory
USB Host Type A—for External keyboard¹
USB Host Type Mini B—for NFC card reader¹
NFC tag SO14443 Type A (NFC Forum Type 2 compliant)¹

¹—Does not support printing functions
Interfaces - optional
Mainframe
IEEE 1284
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (Wireless LAN)
USB Device Server (additional network interface port)
Network protocols - standard
TCP/IP (IPv4, IPv6)
Copy speed
65 cpm—A4 LEF
First copy time
5.5 seconds or less—black and white
7.5 seconds or less—colour
Copy resolution
600 x 600 dpi—4 bit
Zoom range
25%–400% in 1% steps
Duplex copy
Single-sided to duplex, duplex to duplex (via SPDF), book to duplex, front and back cover to duplex
Book copy
Booklet, magazine, layout and booklet
ID card copy
Supported
User codes
1,000 user codes, 8 digits in each code
Print speed colour
65 ppm
Print speed black and white
65 ppm
Print resolution
1,200 x 4,800 dpi
Printer drivers

Standard
PCL 5c, PCL 6, XPS

Note: The XPS driver can be downloaded from the Ricoh website.

Optional
PostScript 3

Universal printer driver
PCL 6 and PostScript 3

Duplex printing
Standard
Mobile printing
Yes
Print from USB/SD
Supported
Scan speed
Black and white—200 x 200 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 1-bit
120 ipm—single-sided
220 ipm—duplex

Colour—200 x 200 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 4-bit
120 ipm—single-sided
220 ipm—duplex
Scan methods
Scan to email, Scan to webmail, Scan to folders (SMB, FTP), Scan to PDF/A, Scan to URL, Scan to searchable PDF

Note: Optional OCR unit is required to support scanning to a searchable PDF.
Colour scanning
Standard
Scan resolution
100 x 100 dpi, 150 x 150 dpi, 200 x 200 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi,
400 x 400 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi; default 200 x 200 dpi
Scan to file types
Single- and multi-page TIFF 
Single-page JPEG 
Single- and multi-page PDF, PDF/A
Single- and multi-page high compression PDF 
Scan to email

Protocols 
SMTP gateway, TCP/IP 

Authentication
SMTP authentication, POP before SMTP authentication

Scan resolution 
100 x 100 dpi,  200 x 200 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 
400 x 400 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi; default 200 x 200 dpi

Scan to email file types
Single-page
TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PDF/A, high compression PDF, encrypted PDF, searchable PDF

Multi page
TIFF, PDF, PDF/A, high-compression PDF, encrypted PDF, searchable PDF

Note: Optional OCR unit is required to support scanning to a searchable PDF.

Scan to folder

Protocols
SMB, FTP

Security
Client folder logon, transmission encryption of logon name and password

Resolution
100 x 100 dpi, 150 x 150 dpi, 200 x 200 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 
400 x 400 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi; default 200 x 200 dpi

Search for client folders
SMB—browsing directly to the designated folder
FTP—by folder name

Scan to folders file types
Single-page
TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PDF/A, high compression PDF

Multi page
TIFF, PDF, PDF/A, high-compression PDF

TWAIN scanning
Scan mode
Standard, Photo, OCR, Filing

Scan resolution
100–1,200 dpi
Fax types
G3 fax, Internet fax (T.37), IP fax (T.38), LAN-Fax, Paperless fax, Direct SMTP fax
Fax circuit
PSTN, PBX
Fax compatibilty
ITU-T (CCITT), G3—maximum 3 lines
Fax modem speed
2,400 bps–33.6 Kbps—G3, standard with automatic shift down
Fax compression methods
MH, MR, MMR, JBIG
Fax resolution

Standard mode 
100 x 200 dpi—8 x 3.85 lines/mm

Detail mode
200 x 200 dpi—8 x 7.7 lines/mm

Super fine mode 
400 x 400 dpi—8 x 15.4 lines/mm
400 x 400 dpi—16 x 15.4 lines/mm

Note: Super fine mode is supported with the optional SAF memory.

G3 fax transmission speed
2 seconds approximately—JBIG, ITU-T No. 1 chart, TTI off, memory transmission
3 seconds approximately—MMR, ITU-T No. 1 chart, TTI off, memory transmission
Fax SAF memory capacity
Standard 
4 MB—approximately 320 pages
 
With optional SAF memory 
60 MB—approximately 4,800 pages
Fax memory backup
1 hour
Quick dials
2,000 numbers
Data Overwrite Security System (DOSS) - Standard
Yes
Data Overwrite Security System (DOSS) - Optional
Type M19—available for customers who require their devices to comply with ISO 15408 Common Criteria certification
Encryption
HDD, PDF, Secure print, WEP, WPA encryption
Address book, authentication password encryption
Encryption of data sent via Scan to email and Fax forwarding (S/MIME)
Authentication
802.1x wired authentication
Administrator authentication
IEEE 802.11i security (WPA2)
IPv6
Network user authentication
Quota setting
User authentication—Windows and LDAP via Kerberos, basic, user code
WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) support
Windows
PCL 5c, PCL 6, and PostScript 3
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10
Macintosh
OS X Native v10.7 or later—PostScript 3 only
Unix
Sun Solaris—9, 10
HP-UX—11.x, 11iv2, 11iv3
Red Hat Linux—Enterprise, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
SCO OpenServer—5.0.7, 6.0
IBM AIX—5L Version 5.3, 6.1, 7.1
SAP
Environment—R/3
SAP R/3 Device Type—supported
PDL—PCL
Character set—Latin 1, Latin 2, Unicode
Printing of all SAP documents (SAPScript, Smartforms, ABAP)—supported
Barcode fonts—Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, Codabar, 2 of 5, MSI, USPS Postnet, UPC/EAN
OCR fonts—OCR A, OCR B
IBM
AS/400, iSeries—OS/400
Standard
@Remote Embedded
Java SDK
Web Image Monitor
Optional
@Remote Connector NX
Ricoh Scan CX
FlexRelease CX
Device Software Manager
Device Manager NX
GlobalScan NX
Printer Driver Packager NX
Streamline NX
Mobile apps
Smart Device Connector
Smart Device Print&Scan
Power source
220–240 V, 50–60 Hz
Power consumption
2,400 W or less—maximum power
1,218 W or less—operating power, black and white
1,321 W or less—operating power, colour
198 W—Ready Mode
181 W—Low Power Mode
0.89 W—Energy Saver Mode (Sleep Mode)
Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC)
4.8 kWh
Warm-up time
38 seconds
Power saving mode
60 minutes shift time—Energy Saver Mode (Sleep Mode)
15 minutes shift time—Low Power Mode
Recovery time
38 seconds—Energy Save Mode
9.7 seconds—Low Power Mode
Green labels
Blue Angel Mark (BAM)
Other environmental features
Eco-friendly indicator, Auto off timer, Energy Saver Timer, Remote Power Off, Default duplex printing, Eco counter, Human Detection Sensor