Toner Information by Manufacturer

We can receive orders for toner frequently for small machines or extraordinarily infrequently for large machines.   Something I find strange about this is that owners and CFOs don’t run spreadsheets at least once a year to assess printing use and possible solutions for expensive prints. This is due in part to people overbuying and under-buying equipment.   Just this week, I was working up a quote for a company with around 70 employees in three offices.    They were content with their toner CPP (cost per print) for their color volume.   However, they are leasing four machines that retail around 18K apiece (72K for a 36month lease…that’s $2000 a month without including prints)!   We are recommending a Xerox Phaser 8860 which is less for toner (dry ink technology)  and about less than half the lease price.   If they needed 20K color pages per month, along with non-stop copying, they would be making a reasonable fiscal decision.  However, by looking only at the toner price, they have drastically over-bought for their needs. We are willing to sell more expensive toner because a customer is married to a machine that doesn’f fit their need.  However, we tell them how they can improve their [...] read more