Don't Let Toner Prices Knock You Out!

by admin in Toner buying tips on July 24, 2009 • No Comments • , , ,
Being in the retail business definitely makes life interesting.   Watching people make poor decisions in their printing is so frustrating!   So many small Denver businesses and non-profits spend precious resources on their printing costs, when they could be using it to survive a difficult economy. First of all, the up-front purchase price of a printer is usually the first priority.   However, the cheaper your printer, fax, or copier is, (almost always) the more expensive the toner is.   Toner is how manufacturer’s make their money.   The margin on OEM toner for a company can be as great as 60%.   That’s a lot of profit for a printer company. The best way for you to save on your toner expenses is to research your printers, fax machines, and copiers’ toner prices before buying.   If you’ve already purchased a machine, look closely at compatible toner.   Compatible toner is a greener (the cartridge has been recycled except for the drum and a couple minor parts) way to print.   Quality compatible cartridges can also save your budget hundreds or thousands of dollars over the life of your equipment.   By using OEM (especially with HP toner, Lexmark toner, Ricoh toner, and Brother toner), only for your [...] read more

5 Printing Tips You Can Use Today

by admin in General Info/Green Printing/Toner buying tips on July 13, 2009 • No Comments • , , , , ,
Most offices waste a lot of money, toner, and time with their printing.   We try to save our clients money (by being consistantly priced at %10-15 lower than major office supply stores) and help them print greener (less waste, energy, and printing emmissions).   So, here are five printing tips you can use today to begin saving money now. 1. Run longer printing/copying jobs whenever possible. This will save you toner, energy, and prolong the life of your color imaging unit if you’re printing in color. 2. Print with your largest printer. If your office prints most jobs on larger laser printers, you will save hundreds in monthy costs compared to small inkjets.  Unless you print under 100 pages per month, you shouldn’t have an inkjet in your office due to the high cost per print (average is $.11 cpp compared to $.03 cpp for laser printers). 3. Set your default mode to print in “Draft” for black and white. Most monochrome documents can be printed in draft mode, and it will prolong your toner life. 4. Buy high-quality compatible cartridges unless you need graphic design quality color prints. Compatible cartridges can save you generally around 25-35 percent per cartridge.   This [...] read more

Coverage and Your Cash Pt. 2

by admin in General Info/Toner buying tips/Xerox Toner Cartridges on June 23, 2009 • No Comments • , ,
Yesterday I wrote about the importance of understanding coverage and how it can save you money if you understand it!   We have a Xerox program here that allows people to do a “cost per print” no matter how much coverage they put on the page.   This is an excellent way for people who make fliers (Realtors, churches, schools, etc.) to dramatically cut costs.   If you own the Xerox printer, it makes color prints for around 6.5 cents a page (with all the color you can fit on it!).   By making coverage a non-issue, it allows you to let your art director make their pictures/photographs as large and full as they like. However, I don’t recommend this program for companies, or small businesses that generally do small pictures or letterhead occasionally.   If your coverage is less than 10%, and you print less than 1000 color prints per month, you’re probably better off just purchasing regular toner.   Even if you do that little color printing, it is still worth looking at the Xerox Phaser series.   The Xerox Phaser 6180 uses the solid ink technology, which dramatically reduces cost for even the most modest color needs. When it comes to coverage, tally [...] read more

Apple Compatibles: Are You Hip?

by admin in General Info/Toner buying tips/Toner Information by Manufacturer on June 17, 2009 • No Comments • , ,
I’ve been looking at some of the OEM cartridges for Apple lately.   The prices would make make even the most devout Mac-lover blink twice over their non-corporate triple latte!   I was pricing the OEM Laserwriter 8500 cartridge (the M5893G/A), and found the best deal was $230 plus shipping!   It prints 14000 pages, however, so do quality compatibles, which cost between $159 and $190 here in the metro Denver area (the $159 with free shipping is ours). The price differences between Apple OEMs and compatibles are almost as great as Lexmarks.   If you are looking for ways to cut costs on your Apple printers, especially on your LaserWriter Series IIF, IIG IINT, IINTX 6000, or IISC (all are the M6002 Apple cartridge), going with compatibles can save you a bundle.   The list price for the 4000 page OEM is $52, while a high-quality compatible only costs $38!   That means for $100 you can print 7,690 pages (OEM) or 10,530 pages (compatible).   That’s almost 3000 more pages for the same price! Whether you like running numbers like this or not, it is a very worthwhile activity.   The key is to shop around and make sure you are getting a good compatible [...] read more

Inkjet Cartridges: Why You Should Buy Compatibles

by admin in General Info/HP Toner Cartridges/Toner buying tips/Toner Cartridge Warranty Info on June 16, 2009 • No Comments • , ,
I recently received a request for a quote on inkjet cartridges.   It surprised me a little because most of our printing quotes are for larger machines’ toner cartridges.   I had to look around our supplier list for a quality manufacturer who made inkjets AND had a good warranty.   The research paid off, and we found one with one of the best track records and best warranty in the business (3 years from date of manufacture).   Most interestingly, they carried some very common HP DeskJet cartridges, HP Photosmart cartridges, and Officejet cartridges. Some of the most common smaller cartridges: the 5162A (#26), the51629A (#28), 51645A (#45), and 51649A (#49) were so much less expensive, and the warranty so much better.    While OEM cartridges are easy to purchase, it makes financial sense to switch to well-made compatibles with a good warranty.   The savings for the small desktop printer make even more sense when you look at how much printing a desktop printer should be doing!   Like I mentioned in the last article, most printing should be done at the much less expensive (per page) workhorse printers in a central area.   Desktop printers are best for the home, or as an auxiliary printer [...] read more

Print Green By Consolidating

by admin in Green Printing/Toner buying tips/Toner Donation on June 15, 2009 • No Comments • , , ,
I was thinking about how we can print greener this weekend.   As I was brainstorming over a cup of black coffee, I thought of something I have briefly mentioned before: saving toner on your printing by adjusting work-flow.   I have mentioned overbuying and under-buying equipment for your office’s needs, but I want to give you some practical tips on saving your green and helping the earth. First, monitoring your ppm (pages per month) is extremely important for each machine.   Also, the fewer machines you have, generally, the better.   I was working with an industrial office last week that had almost one printer per employee.   They were smaller desktop printers for an office that does minimal printing.   They weren’t a telephone call center, where having individual printers may be a necessity.   So, I wondered, why do they have so many printers? The environmental impact of printing is much more when you consider that each small petroleum-based plastic cartridge only carries the toner for 400-500 pages.    Buying a cartridge roughly 3 times in size would produce 10-20 times the prints.   That’s a lot of extra plastic for an office of small printers!   What I recommended for this office was consolidating their printing [...] read more

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