MANAGED PRINT SERVICES
Flat Rate and Managed Print
The Argument for a Flat Rate Program The biggest argument for a flat rate managed print program is simplicity. As the print management client, you know exact printing costs and you can even break it into even monthly payments. This gives you control over accounting as well as allowing you to cap a cost of printing…
Read MoreTop 5 Ways to Reduce Printing Costs
Tip 1 – Implementing a system to measure your fleet The first step is to implement a system to measure your existing fleet. At the very least, you should be able to easily view your inventory. This includes the location of your printers your monthly print volume the cost of your printing (service and supplies)…
Read MoreThe Importance of Vendor Neutrality for Managed Print
What is Vendor Neutrality? When it comes to managed print, vendor neutrality means we will do what is best for our clients, regardless of the sticker or brand on the front of the printer. If you have 200 HP printers, we can support that. If you have 200 Xerox or Canon devices, that is fine…
Read MoreWhat about security and Managed Print Services?
What do you mean by secure printing? There are different types of security, the primary being the security of the document and the security of the device. Security of the document is when people print directly to a copier/printer and they can’t just leave it at the printer unattended. Basically, the document needs to be…
Read MoreThe Importance Of Data Collection Agents in Managed Print
Gives Visibility to Your Devices A good DCA will allow a managed print company to see what devices are printing on your network. What this does for you is make sure everything is being watched and secure. What it does for us is allow us to look and see what other devices you run and how much…
Read MoreLarge Healthcare Systems – Avoid this Gap in Print Management
Healthcare Industry Example – Case Study If you take a company and look back over a 5 year period and compare it to where they are at now with their printer fleet, you may find some interesting information. We were working to gain a client that ultimately went with a manufacturer and paid a price…
Read More5 Tips for Print Fleet Optimization
Tip 1 – Don’t Overbuy One of the easiest things we see larger companies do with print, is they get too many printers in the printer fleet and then device management gets a lot trickier because there are too many printers. There are 2 places this tends to happen. Lack of a policy about who…
Read MoreKeys to a Print Consolidation Strategy
How can you make your print environment more efficient, affordable, and sustainable? Consolidation is number one. Any organization we go into, we find that 90 percent of the printing is done by 50 percent of the fleet or less. Conversely, the other 50 percent is doing 10 percent. So focus on the top 50 percent…
Read MoreManaged Print Invoicing
Managed Print Invoicing Invoicing can be a very integral part of managing your printer fleets. With proper invoicing practices, costs that are otherwise overlooked become very easy to see and take into the overall reports. We help companies manage their print fleet and are experts at finding costs that may be hidden to your company today.…
Read MoreWhen is the Best Time to Buy Printers?
If you have a fleet of laser printers, there is a lot of thinking in the marketplace about when is the best time to buy printers. Some manufacturers will say about every 3 to 4 years, the industry seems to say about every 5 years, but we would normally argue for even a bit longer product lifecycle.…
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