Reducing the Cost of Printing

By: Francois Ragnet

Did you know that on average, your company is spending between 3 and 4% of its revenue producing documents, which represents on average $3,400 per employee? Would saving 30% of these costs be interesting? How about, at the same time, reducing your paper consumption by 30-40% and reducing drastically the energy consumption?

Welcome to Managed Print Services. More information, along with very interesting case studies, can be found in this very good article from the Wall Street Journal. It describes “the new business of printing”: moving from a “print more” business model driven by toner, paper and office device sales, to a “print less and better” model targeting reduction in device and usage, and more responsible use of printing - the “Less Paper” office.

Xerox is leading the way (closely followed by HP) of the Managed Print Services market. This market is growing 36% this year, according to Ed Crowley, president of Photizo Group.