When considering the acquisition, upgrade or transfer of office printers, without doubt the combined factors of print speed, brand reputation, connectivity to existing tool and print potential are all part of the decision mix. But budgeting for the total cost of the selected printer in terms of the consumables used - this is the real challenge for buyers. This is the area where the manufacturers and distributors are battling for the revenue streams from consumables - inks, toner cartridges, print media, transfer parts and the like. Here the discounts are less obvious, and for good reason. The onus is squarely on the buyer to reconsider these costs, and to ensure they are not buying into an expensive cost of ownership.
So, rather than going with the brand and the technology they are used to, and seeing for the biggest purchase price discount, what do buyers have to gain by doing their research? The answer, of course, is a great deal.
Canon Multifunction Printers
Inkjet or Laser printer?
First off, the mantra from It departments is often fixed in stone, that laser printers should always be specified as the more "professional" selection for any organisation. But for small groups, inkjet provides a perfectly professional print quality, and would suit small networked teams, not least because of the quiet operation compared with some highly noisy laser systems in operation.
On the other hand, in terms of purchase price alone, the cost of entry-level colour laser has also made laser very animated to corporations, so that they can supervene the advice of their It departments, upgrade monochrome laser to colour and then dispell the supplies and consumables costs in their departmental stationery budgets.
But in an additional one scenario, price discounting has also brought the colour laser printer within reach of the home-office worker, or sole trader company, where the "mantra" factor tempts buyers away from inkjet simply straight through the confidence that laser provides great print potential at faster print speeds. Here, it is quite possible that low page counts and colour content would not expound the higher cost of many laser printers currently available.
On the other hand again, by seeing amongst the best discounted prices, colour laser printers in the Canon range can be found at a very similar prices to Hewlett-Packard company inkjet machines, and as we shall see, can offer laser technology at a competing allinclusive Cost of Printing, when print volumes are below average.
High volume or low volume usage?
In the moot about the best route - laser or inkjet - a major choosing factor is, without doubt, the foreseen, volume of use. Even considering the above examples, discounting would have to be far too heavy in order for any laser printer to match the low allinclusive cost of printing ready with, say, the Hp Officejet Pro K550. Tests have shown that allinclusive cost of printing on this printer, in a high-volume environment, has been shown to be as low as two pence per page taking into catalogue a purchase price that is well below £100.
Conversely, users with low volume needs might aim to avoid replacing the more expensive laser parts. Some might hope not even to need to replenish the colour toners.
At the level of 250 pages per month, for example, a user will print 9,000 pages over three years. Calculating at at black-only to colour page ratio of 70%/30% (in favour of black-only), then only 2,700 of those pages will be colour.
At this level, many laser printers will need a toner change while the life - or the capital cost write-off duration - of the printer. But it is not impossible to find a low-end entry-level laser printer with a 2,000-page starter toner capacity so that for such users there is no need for a colour toner change within three years.
Other factors affecting colour printer choice
Colour is desirable of course, when working with presentation materials. But a large proportion of printing can still usefully involve only monochrome output. How much colour is used will always be a factor in costs. Discipline is needed to ensure strict printer settings for the task in hand. Discipline is also needed, of course, for test printing, where draft settings are prominent to ensure no unnecessary, cumulative wastage.
With the selection in technologies, and with the selection in entry-level pricing inkjets, against high specification or workhorse lasers, and against the added complexities of multifunctional printers, it pays to think hard about the actual tasks to which a new printer is to address and the estimate of users it is to serve. This is the starting point for an understanding of the actual costs of owning the printer over its lifetime in the workplace.
Tags : printer ink toner http://bestgmingpc.blogspot.com/ http://bettprinterscanner.blogspot.com/
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น