FAQs — Manage Printing
How would my business benefit from a managed print solution?
The benefits realized with a managed print solution include: 1) Printing costs become known; 2) Print devices and page volumes are known and managed; 3) Brands and providers are consolidated; 4) Print environment is managed wholistically; 5) Employee involvement is significantly reduced; and, 6) Savings up to 30 percent on print-related costs.
What size business benefits most from managing its print environment?
Printelligent has found that any size business can benefit from managing print-related expenses. The benefits of managed print are more fully realized in an environment with more than 10 print devices.
Why a per-page billing model?
A per-page billing model takes into account all the costs of printing and breaks them down into a simple per-page cost. In this way, all the costs of printing are known to you and can be budgeted, forecasted and reported against in order to more thoroughly manage a previously unmanaged business expense. Furthermore, this model transfers the risk of toner cartridge and print device performance directly to the service provider. Lastly, the per-page costs become an essential data-point for the management and optimization of your print environment.
What are the typical savings realized by implementing a managed print solution?
Typical cost savings is 10-30 percent. You save time and money by increasing employee efficiency. Employees who previously spent time supporting printers by ordering supplies, processing invoices, and responding to printer-related help-desk calls can better concentrate on their core job responsibilities.
What is a multifunction printer?
A multifunction printer (MFP) is a device that can print, copy, scan and fax, all in the same device. MFPs also have inherent technology such as scan-to-email, scan-to-folder and walk-up print security functions.
What is a print-centric environment?
A print-centric environment indicates the majority of devices are print-based and the pages are printed as opposed to copied. Over the past two decades the majority of businesses have already migrated to be print-centric. Copy machines play a much smaller role in the print-centric environment.