How big is your printing budget?

[JJonas]

Im trying to work out if I can get more money towards school printing costs

 

Can you let me know the following:

 

1. If you have a separate print budget?

2. How much money is allocated annually to printing in your school?

3. How many pupils you have on your school roll?

 

Thanks

[jcollings]

Im trying to work out if I can get more money towards school printing costs

 

Can you let me know the following:

 

1. If you have a separate print budget?

2. How much money is allocated annually to printing in your school?

3. How many pupils you have on your school roll?

 

Thanks

 

Interesting - our budget for printing is around 6k but we spend around 24k. We have 1450 students (11-18) and 150 ish staff.

[rclough]

We have no budget and are on target to spend 35k this year!

1750 students 200 staff

[Vegas]

900 girls on roll

11k printing budget

[Haptic]

for those who feel like they arent getting value for money on there printer consumable purchasing, please send us a spreadsheet of your toner requirements and the current pricing you have from your supplier to the email address below and we will see if we can make you a noticeable saving,

 

We look forward to hearing from you,

 

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Edited June 14, 2012 by Dos_Box

[buzzard]

we recharge all printing to departments because we where spending way too much on printing. Making departments pay for it has reduced it by 75%. Basically they only now print what they need to. They are charged on a monthly basis, these are passed onto the finance manager who did the transferal of funds between budgets.

[ninjabeaver]

we recharge all printing to departments because we where spending way too much on printing. Making departments pay for it has reduced it by 75%. Basically they only now print what they need to. They are charged on a monthly basis, these are passed onto the finance manager who did the transferal of funds between budgets.

 

Snap. Same here.

[Netman]

1. Yes

2. Circa 8k

3. 600

[bossman]

ICT suites plus staff areas 6.5k this year

We don't do bad for printing as we have printer credits and the staff who don't have a department printer are limited on their personal credits.

[witch]

1 Yes

2 £1000

3 500

[Heebeejeebee]

Yes

£5.5K (overspent already - thanks to an increase in the photocopy charge to faculties)

1100

 

btw we don't cover the photocopiers - that's another budget.

 

HBJB

[contink]

I'm not sure any of my primaries ever had a budget but I do know my first school went from wasting £1k on average a year buying inkjets + cartridges, and then letting them dry out to because no-one knew how to change the cartridges...

 

So, I arrived with two CIS Epson C84's and (then) experimental CIS kits and blew the budget to £1.5k in the first year BUT the savings were close to £3k compared to OEM consumables.

 

 

 

Nowadays we're saving around £2.5k or so with a spend around £800 (+about £200 required for maintenance) a year for inks and the occasional replacement printhead.

[DSapseid]

15k for 700 pupils and 80 staff. On target to be less than that though due to me being a BOFH this year when it comes to replacing ink

[FN-GM]

We spend arround 1.2K each month sometimes we can get away without getting for a month. It does come out of another budget.

[peterpan]

have you looked into papercut to cut your printing costs?

PaperCut - Free software and licensing options

even if you use the free software to monitor who is printing what!

[JJonas]

We are using print manager plus - but the cost of the toner still has to be paid for.

[spiral]

we recharge all printing to departments because we where spending way too much on printing. Making departments pay for it has reduced it by 75%. Basically they only now print what they need to. They are charged on a monthly basis, these are passed onto the finance manager who did the transferal of funds between budgets.

 

We currently charge like this but are looking to move away from it as the teachers don't care to much how much they waste.