Papercut MF vs Hive

[ITea]

I just wanted to follow this up with a thank you for all the feedback.

 

As it turns out, we ended up sticking with Canon/Uniflow. We'll upgrade our on prem Uniflow to the cloud version, which is currently a more mature product than Papercut Hive. Canon came in at half the price of the competitor solutions, which was impossible to ignore. We loose some functionality, not using Papercut on Prem, but gain some too via Uniflow Cloud (and some space on out VM host) so it was a no-brainer after the cost difference of Canon, as well as their fixed pricing and simpler contract.

 

Best wishes.

[IKWeb]

I've had 2 companies quote for hive and 1 for MF, for 8 devices it came to more than the full cost of the copiers. Hive was a fair bit more than MF, but MF was still expensive.

 

Based on that I would say someone is giving you bad prices. We pay very very low 3 figures per year per device. Licences are purchased via our print company.

[Guest Guest]

Based on that I would say someone is giving you bad prices. We pay very very low 3 figures per year per device. Licences are purchased via our print company.

 

We pay roughly £200 per copier per year for MF

[steveg]

We pay roughly £200 per copier per year for MF

 

I've been quoted roughly double that!

[Steve21]

I've been quoted roughly double that!

 

It does depend on manufacturers and numbers of devices

 

For example a single copier we had quoted recently was £450~ for embedded license. With a £80 support/license per year going on

 

But I know there are levels of discount you get, so like 10 is a different band of pricing etc

 

Steve

[ITea]

The solution we are after is a leased replacement for all current MFPs, service contract, and software management solution. It genuinely surprised me how much cheaper Canon were than the other quotes we received. As I said, these things are always a compromise, but for the money, and a cloud-based solution that works for our setup (a mixture of shared PCs, personal mobile devices, School Chromebooks and iPads), this seems like the way to go for us. I completely appreciate that everyone's setup and requirements are different though.

[Vitorcosta]

We are moving from Canon Uniflow onprem to Uniflow Cloud this summer ! About 50 machines scattered across