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REASONS TO GO DIGITAL
MANAGE RUN-AWAY COSTS OF PRINTING
READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR NEXT COPIER OR PRINTER.

As your firm moves to the next cycle of copier upgrades, you are faced with new decisions which significantly impact your cost of reproducing documents. The choice revolves around the traditional (analog) copier technology or the newer digital copier technology. Aside from the multitude of copy quality, reliability & new feature benefits now available through the digital technology, the following financial assessment reveals undeniable cost benefits, which can serve to make your choice more obvious.

The digital copier/printer will provide major cost savings in several straightforward areas such as:

It can be connected to the network as an output device for print volume, which up until now has been the province of page print devices (HPs, Lexmarks, etc.).
The cost per print of the digital copier (as outlined below) is far lower than any of these other output devices for the network.

Measurable productivity gains are achieved through controlling copier and print functions from the desktop.

If you connect the digital copier to the network, it becomes important to illustrate the cost savings that are derived by migrating print volume to the digital device. The figures derived on the following pages come from What To Buy For Business estimates of page coverage costs on for a page printer. This illustration portrays the three different output devices and their costs per print. We elect to show real-life estimates at 12% coverage (which is closer to the average printed page) as opposed to industry standard measurement of 5% coverage (published in What To Buy For Business).

After looking at the examples on the following pages, please give me a call for a more detailed explanation of how this concept can be applied to your specific situation. I would need about 30 minutes of your time to outline the exact return-on-investment this technology can provide for your company.

Thank you for your interest. Please call 212-843-6700 and schedule an appointment or demonstration.

Page Print Device	Median Cost for 5% Coverage (Industry standard)	Median Cost for 12% Coverage (Actual average coverage)	Actual Cost Per Print
HP Cartridge Printer	$.022	240% x $.022	$.0528
HP D640 Network Printer	$.01	240% x $.01	$.024
Konica/Sharp Digital Product	*	*	$.013*
* Copier/Printers do not differentiate between line coverage for the purposes of Cost Per Copy programs.

This illustration portrays the run-away costs attributable to consumption by page-printers, and provides a very easy return on investment based upon the migration of page-prints spooled to a digital copier product. The potential savings on each print is $0.0398 per print.

Let’s assume that because of the placement of digital copiers, we are able to migrate 10,000 prints per month to the digital copier from the group of page-printers that now co-exist in your firm. The following illustration demonstrates the monthly and yearly and three year supply savings assuming the same 10,000 prints were run on the digital copier/printer.