There are 5 printers in total as follows:
- A Series – Ink Tank
- A Series – Laser
- M Series – Ink cartridge
- P Series – Ink Tank
- P Series – Laser
All printers will have some things in common. This is designed to make it as unified as possible. While some things may not make sense at first, I will go into detail of the roles that feature will support. Interacting with the printer will be through the Printer’s Icon on your Senitrus Computer, The Printer Icon on your handheld, and if you don’t have a Senitrus Device, then you would use Senitrus Manager which will be available for Linux (.deb, .rpm), MacOS (Apple Silicon only), and Windows 11. Senitrus Manager will give you a simulated layout to what you might find on a Senitrus computer. Not all features will be the same as the OS?, but you get to access your devices that are in your Senitrus ID. Last option is you can go to the printer’s IP address. You will log in with your admin UID, and password.
ADF
M Series will have a 10 sheet feeder that is in the same tray for both prints and scans. This means you can only do one thing at a time, and you can’t make copies The ADF is a manual duplex feed system. This means if you need to scan both sides of a page as 1 document, you would have to familiarize yourself in how to do that. Senitrus Systems will make every effort to having Youtube videos available to show how to do this.
A Series will have a 25 sheet ADF. This is much more than the M Series printer, and in addition the printer is capable of auto-duplex scanning. This is a complete step up from the M Series. However, the M Series doesn’t have the hardware for auto-duplex, and sacrifices that for portability.
The P Series like the A Series will have a 25 sheet auto-duplex ADF. It would have been nice if more sheets could be loaded, but this is not practical for weight reasons. However, the P series will copy/scan much quicker than the A Series.
Email Address
Every printer will have an email? address. This will always be based off the Senitrus ID that registered the printer followed by a 3 digit number. This will become the UID. The address will be uid@mfc.senitrus.com. You could change if you really need too, but the system doesn’t like changes. If you want to receive emails, but concerned over giving out your printer’s address, then you can acquire a domain, and make the address such as print@fspsample.com as an example. You would then set that email address to forward to your printer’s address. If you need to change your address, you can do so with the fspsample.com domain, and make a new UID.
Screen
The screens are all different sizes. No matter what, they are in 8:5 format which is also known as 8:5. The screens are essential to see what is going on with the printer. Your printer’s Home Screen will have all of the features front and center, allowing for you to make decisions on what to do.
The M Series has a 4″ screen. This is relatively small as you would need the screen to tell the printer to scan, or print. If you need to access files on the printer, you would need to do that through the screen, or your computer. The screen is not really big enough to manage files on it.
The A series will have a 7″ screen. This will allow the user to have more options, and capabilities therefore relying less on the computer when things can be done on the screen. The 7″ screen will allow you to set up scans, and define where the scans go to (A:/, B:/, E:/, email, or networked computer). Obviously, you can do copies as mentioned above, but the screen will tell you what’s going on when you need to know what is going on.
The P Series will have an 8.5″ screen, and better resolution. As with the A series, you would be able to handle, and manage the files in A:/, B:/, E:/, and any other folders. There is also a mono speaker that would allow you to play audio files such as voicemails. The speaker is behind the screen.
SD Card Slots
All printers will have a slot tray for your microSD card. SDXC (A and M) supports up to 2TB?, so there really is not a need for more than that considering it is only documents, and images storing on the card. However, the P will have SDUC (128TB max). The microSD card is not intended to go in and out. It is like a semi-permanent storage that you can access when you need to, and upgrade in the event that you need to. All Senitrus devices comes with a 64GB? with options for up to 2TB.
There is also a SD card slot. in front of the printer. This card slot is good if you have files on the SD card that needs printing, or if you wish to scan to the card (as noted above). If there is no scan folder, then the printer will create one. All scans will either scan to .pdf or .png. The file name will always be a date/time stamp. Not inventive, but it gets the job done.
USB-C Ports
All printers have 2 USB-C ports. One is in the front, and the other is in the back of the printer. While both ports do the same thing, it might make sense for one port to be used over the other for convenience. However, you could just as easily do the opposite of common sense. Both ports are using USB4 standards. The front port can be used for thumb drives, and similar items. SSDs might not make a lot of sense due to the capacity they will likely have. Since there is no USB-A port, the thumb drive needs USB-C or an adapter.
The rear USB-C port on the A and P series are best to be used for the ethernet adapter. This will allow the computer to connect to the LAN directly and not worry about wifi?. This gives maximum flexibility, and options that might not be otherwise.
The M Series has just a USB-C port in the rear. For setup, the printer can use an SD card, or if there is enough power, you can use the rear USB-C port for storage drive connectivity. This solution is best defined by your situation at the time.