Managed Print Services Costs & Advantages
Managed Print Services Costs & Advantages
We have been getting more and more enquiries recently from small to medium sized businesses who have purchased printers and are now finding they’re spending an absolute fortune on inks.
As a result they’ve gone online to look at options for a Managed Print Service in a way to look to reduce their print costs…
We’ve spent some time looking at some figures to physically show how much can be saved from entering into a managed print service contract with us.
Firstly, let’s look at the cost of running some of the most popular A4 machines available from both high street and online printer retailers:
Off The Shelf Printers v Our Managed Print Costs
As can be seen from the figures above, the running costs of these cheap A4 printers are huge. They’re primarily aimed at the very low use market – home users or very small businesses doing a minimal amount of printing. However, when a business grows and their print volume inevitably increases the cost of toners becomes very painful.
At this point, companies look at ways to reduce their costs and we get a call. Our managed print contract is a surefire way to dramatically reduce print costs whilst having numerous additional benefits – remote monitoring, engineers on-call in case of problems (included in the price), toners automatically sent out when needed and more …..
Just look at the running costs of cheap off the shelf printers … The inks work out incredibly expensive per print – from 1p to 4p per mono print and from 11.7p to over 20p per colour print. Compare this with a managed print service where we supply everything bar the paper. A3 machine print costs are fixed at 2.5p colour and 0.25p per mono print and A4 machine print costs from 0.4p mono and from 4p colour ….
The reason it’s so much cheaper are:
- The machines we supply are proper business machines, built for business printing – therefore the toner cartridges needed are much larger and result in a much lower cost per print.
- We have huge buying power with the printer manufacturers and by buying toners in such large numbers, our costs are much lower than they are for individual users
By entering into a managed print service with us, you will benefit from:
- Much lower print costs
- The latest print hardware technology from worldwide top tier technology brands such as Ricoh, Epson & Konica Minolta
- 24/7 remote monitoring of the machine for faults, problems errors. The remote monitoring also tells us when your toners are getting low and we automatically send out new cartridges.
- 4-hour engineer call out response times if your machine breaks down.
- Any parts required to fix any problems are included. If a machine breaks and can’t be repaired, we’ll supply a replacement.
Hopefully you can see the benefits of a managed print service with us. If you’re a business doing a reasonable amount of printing, then not only will you save money by using our service, you’ll have the peace of mind that your printer is our responsibility to keep it functioning 24/7.