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Reduce Costs through Printer Consolidation
Controlling organization printing costs has to be black and white.
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Your Challenge
- Most organizations are unaware of the savings potential from printer consolidation
- In most organizations there is no ownership for managing print costs, so no aggregate view of the total cost of printing exists
- Without this visibility, organizations risk overlooking potentially substantial cost savings, as it is difficult to muster executive commitment and support for printer consolidation
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Inventorying and profiling printing devices identifies consolidation opportunities and creates real cost savings. To ensure success, assigning accountability is paramount, and communication with executives and end-users will be necessary to gain buy-in.
- Gain executive buy-in to ensure the initiative is successful. Convince executives that printer consolidation is a worthwhile initiative by educating them on the potential cost-saving and green benefits.
- Allocate responsibility for on-going tracking printing to IT so that aggregate costs are known and tracked.
- Prepare a baseline inventory of devices and costs to identify potential savings.
- Select the right print management software to manage print devices and automate the onerous cost-control process
- Explain the rationale for printer consolidation initiatives to end-users and make them accountable for their printing habits to minimize frivolous printing habits
Get to Action
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Make the business case to executives and explain the rationale to end-users to manage resistance
Create accountability for aggregate print costs and manage the implementation
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Prepare a baseline print device inventory
Identify cost-saving opportunities
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1 Comment
Victor,
I am looking for a template to give printing companies a specification to review, recommend a printing stratedgy for the company. Do you have such a document?