Managed Print Services Articles
Are Managed Print Services Worth It?
The copier salesman promises savings. The IT director warns about hidden costs. Your CFO wants data, not opinions. Managed print services generate this confusion because the value proposition isn’t immediately obvious. Unlike software subscriptions or equipment purchases, MPS transforms an entire business function most organizations have never properly measured. You
How to Reduce Paper Waste Without Disrupting Office Workflow
Office paper consumption remains stubbornly high despite decades of predictions about the paperless office. The average office worker uses approximately 10,000 sheets of paper annually, with a significant portion printed once, used briefly, and then discarded or filed away never to be retrieved again. Understanding how to reduce paper waste
Are Multi-Functional Printers the Best Choice for Modern Offices?
The question of whether multi-functional printers represent the optimal choice for modern offices depends entirely on how your organization actually works. Single-function devices dominated offices for decades because they excelled at specific tasks—printers printed quickly, copiers handled high volumes, scanners delivered quality digitization, and fax machines managed telecommunications. Multi-functional printers
How to get the meter reading on your Ricoh, Sharp or Kyocera copier
Just like how the electric company needs to read the electric meter on your home, your office technology provider periodically needs to take the meter reading on your copier. Doing so not only helps your copier vendor know how to properly…
5 tips for safely and effectively sanitizing your copier or printer
Come flu season, cold season, “the crud” or any epidemic, the workplace can be much like schools, churches, restaurants and, well, any place where people gather — it’s an area where disease is transmitted.
It is in those places where the…
How to replace the waste toner bottle on a Sharp MX series copier (Video included)
From time to time, your Ricoh copier system will request for you to change your consumables and this includes you toner and waste toner bottles.
Here is how to change it…
Toner scams: What they are and how to protect yourself
Pirates these days don’t use words like “ahoy,” avast” and “matey.” They may not clunk around the decks of wooden tall ships on peg legs, wear eye patches, recite the pirate code or host colorful, talking, feathered creatures on their shoulders…
7 reasons your school needs managed print services
It’s time to talk about your printing environment. Whether you are a grade school or a university, you know the challenges of maintaining your printers, keeping them supplied, preventing waste and doing all of this within a budget.
It means…
6 benefits organizations will enjoy with managed print services
Too many organizations, especially smaller cash-strapped ones, understandably shy of contracts and spending hard-to-get funds, think they are saving money by purchasing cheap desktop printers at big-box stores…