Printers are often seen as the poor relations of the PC, and are quite possibly the least sexy part of an industry already chronically short of sex appeal. Printers make up a large percentage of the total cost of running any office.
This is often fine for the small office/home office market, which as Peter Taylor, Hewlett-Packard's (HP) product manager for network laser printers, explained, tends to be pushed for space. John Blair, vice-president of marketing and engineering...
This can also reduce the number of printers needed - for instance, KPMG is in the process of reducing its population of 2,000 printers with just 240 multi-function devices - saving power, floor space, maintenance and, with luck, a lot of paper.
This considers all costs associated with procuring, owning and using printing and imaging devices, including maintenance and ongoing support. Now that the printing and copier technologies are converging in the form of the MFP device, IT managers...
Printers and copiers sit idle, consuming power. You can have printers set to mono as default and have colour as the exception. Colm Feighoney, a green IT consultant with IBM Global Services, says: "Many of the organisations I come across have far...
These groups typically operate independently, resulting in organisations owning a range of printing devices from multiple vendors with incompatible software, consumables and supplies. On top of all this, few organisations have document accounting...
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