The Real Costs of Print

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As you evaluate the print needs of your company, you are likely looking at costs, functionality, quality, and volume needs. These are all essential to get the right printer. These are also referred to as "hard costs" of a print environment.

However, there are often other costs associated with print that are initially overlooked. The "soft costs" of printing include IT assistance, staff troubleshooting, location and traffic, and device repair.

What is the best way to address these soft costs so they don't take over your entire print budget? By working with a team of outsourced professionals like at Preferred Business Systems to implement managed print, you can save extensively on these print costs and allow your teams to keep using the machine for their business needs.

Evaluating Budget and Print

Understanding your print budget and real print costs is critical to maintaining a functional and cost-effective print environment. You can get a good idea of this by looking at all print costs. However, a more comprehensive view is part of managed print. This is the print audit, which evaluates overall printing, essential and non-essential, volume and workload, supply quantity, and other hidden costs.

Your managed print team can come up with a regular report of printing output and expenses so that you can evaluate and adjust - hard costs and soft costs - to keep your print budget on track.

Finding Solutions

In addition to managing costs, managed print can help your print environment maintain efficiency with oversight of supply ordering, print fleet, printing policy advising, and more.

Your managed print team will help you find the solutions you need for an effective print environment.

Next Steps

Starting managed print is the first step to saving big on print budgets. Preferred Business Systems makes it easy to implement your managed print system and make the changes you need to shift your print environment towards efficiency and savings. Let's talk.