More and more of today's businesses are realizing how focusing on sustainability actually favorably impacts their bottom line. Consciously making choices that are better for the environment ultimately means reducing waste, and thus, reducing costs.
Managed services in general work well with sustainable practices, thanks to the focus on efficiency and waste reduction. Managed Print addresses issues and waste related to printing, and the results can be pretty phenomenal.
How it Works
Managed Print starts with an assessment of your fleet and print infrastructure. By understanding the complexity of your print environment and all the costs associated with it, you can see where to make improvements.
Here's a hypothetical example. Business A has numerous multifunction printers across the office, as well as a few desktop printers at various workstations. Business A also tries to keep a high stock level of paper, ink, and toner, but with several people authorized to place orders, sometimes there are too many paper reams in the closet and no ink in stock. Two machines go down all of the time, so several employees have to use different printers. They end up standing in line or grabbing someone else's paperwork in a rush to grab their documents. Some of the employees print everything, including emails, and their computers' default setting is color.
A print assessment of this business will uncover all of these issues and, obviously, a print management plan will address the inefficiencies and paper glut. But the assessment will also highlight the status, age, and capability of each printer, and the plan can target ways to relocate, remove, or replace some of the devices. Business A might save as much as 30% on their print costs.
Built-In Sustainability
As you can see from our example above, there is an awful lot of wasteful practices going on, and those can be both costly and unkind to the environment. By addressing the unmanaged print practices, an organization can go green while saving money.
Many businesses that adopt print management find it easy to implement greener practices at the same time. For example, explaining best practices when it comes to printing, increasing the number of recycling bins, and reusing paper whenever possible are just a few of the easy additions you can make.
Find out how to go greener and save! Contact us today to learn more
