Does anyone have a comparative analysis of printing costs they use covering inkjet, laser, MDF etc? Appreciate they all differ, I'd just like to get some quick ball park data!
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Does anyone have a comparative analysis of printing costs they use covering inkjet, laser, MDF etc? Appreciate they all differ, I'd just like to get some quick ball park data!
For those that may come after, here's some ball park numbers.
Leased MFD's :
MFD Mono : £0.0044
MFD Color : £0.045
Both lasers and inkjet costs vary on page coverage; the costs given are fairly typical ranges based on page coverage of 5% up to 90%. Ink costs on the
inkjet don't vary much with color.
Mono Laser : £0.025 - £0.30
Color Laser : £0.04-£0.60
Inkjet : £0.11-£1.50
Those MFD prices are very expensive pcstru. Quotes I've just got for them here are 0.3 mono and 3.2 colour ish.
Can't argue with the laser/ink though - the prices can be 'nothing' to 'arm and a leg' depending on whether you use originals, the make and model of the machines. For example, Epson CX11 colour lasers cost us about 10p a mono copy and 20p minimum for colour, whereas HP CP3505's are fractions of a penny mono.
£0.004 is 0.4 pence - so yours are 24% cheaper - about the same as your colour. You are certainly getting a better deal - although I think you might do better still on colour (I've been quoted 1p per copy colour on a machine lease). The years might account for some of the difference - we are 2 years into a 3 year lease on our copiers.Quote:
Originally Posted by localzuk
1p per colour on an MFD? That's ridiculously cheap - only place I've seen it is on Riso duplicators (which aren't good quality). I've gone direct to manufacturers under government contracts and the cheapest colour one is 2.93! All of the central government contracts also state the prices can't change during the life of the contract.Quote:
Originally Posted by pcstru
can you recommend the supplier please
The best pricing I'm getting is from Ricoh and Konica Minolta (direct with the manufacturers) - but in both cases they contacted us! Ricoh's rental prices are ridiculously cheap too.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberNerd
How many people print on MDF? hehe lol.
Ben
I went with Ricoh direct just before I left my last place. They will also now do Papercut MF as part of the lease agreement.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberNerd
On this - its probably cheaper to go direct with someone for the Papercut MF license - they usually come out much cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by glennda
Originally we were going to buy separate Papercut for ITS and Devices from Ricoh, but we had a competetive quote from a third party (who I can't remember) who bundled it all together. Which made Ricoh hook up with ITS to offer an All in one solution at what was essentially the same cost. The school was going for MF with biometric integration which was a far chunk of money (about 17K I think).Quote:
Originally Posted by localzuk
@CyberNerd - if you want I will PM you the name of the account manager round here - very nice lady :)
One thing to note is that some of the suppliers will charge you double click fees if printing to A3. Whereas Ricoh direct don't. If you don't print much in A3 that should be ok then!
That's the company! They have been badgering to put in a device with free printing for a month, which I will probably take up to check quality. My wife's old school had a Riso device though and she said they were OK...Quote:
Originally Posted by localzuk
They are high speed duplicators rather than copiers, so they have a place, but when I last looked at them (about 3 years now) the quality was nowhere near that of copiers.Quote:
Originally Posted by pcstru
Just goes to show the difference as ours are Ricoh. Must press them for a better deal!Quote:
Originally Posted by localzuk
Get them to quote under the contract 'CPC/DU/MFD/01'.Quote:
Originally Posted by pcstru