Managed Print Contract....

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Originally Posted by sonofsanta

When you work out usage and costs, bear in mind that toners are measured for lifespan on 5% coverage, whereas realistically a page of A4 12pt text is closer to 10%. A colour page would use 5/10% of each toner as well. You also need to factor in the cost of drums, belts, fusers and other consumables to get a true reflection of cost per page to compare against the offer from the managed contract.

As others have said, chief benefit to me was no longer worrying about printers - time saved on shopping around for toners alone is significant.

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Thanks.
In our case the managed contract firm ran some software on our network for almost 3 months which gave them volumes off all the network printers...
We did our own internal audit on the stand-alone -and although this was only over 1 month it's better than guessing...

The monthly cost to them is based on volume ie. 122,000 mono and 54,000 colour - which hopefully is pretty accurate....

We use Danwood for our contract. On the face of it, it doesn't look like it saves much money - but then again, we did get a load of brand new kit 'thrown' in. Plus, any real problems - I just ring and they come and sort it (usually same day).

If you want figures, i'd be happy to PM you with details.

Ben

We purchased a Konica Minolta C35P Bizhub outright for about £600

I have attached a copy of my report

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Originally Posted by Ben_Stanton

We use Danwood for our contract. On the face of it, it doesn't look like it saves much money - but then again, we did get a load of brand new kit 'thrown' in. Plus, any real problems - I just ring and they come and sort it (usually same day).

If you want figures, i'd be happy to PM you with details.
Thanks
Ben

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Hi Ben, yes please could email me some details as

Thank you all guys and ladies for your advice and help. It helped me get a picture of what's out there.

What area of the country are you ? you can get it cheaper than £25K per annum

We went out for tender for ours.

It is a god send for support now, really can not fault it, and combined with joint ID cards / HID print cards and follow me printing for staff, it means 80% of the grief has gone.

Thought you all might find the following interesting.

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