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Calculating the true cost of printing
The cost of printing in today’s large enterprise is likely to be far more than the enterprise estimates or realises. To accurately calculate hardcopy TCO, the enterprise must take into account a variety of factors that represent both direct and indirect costs.

Charging back making color pay for itself
One way to control your costs for color printing is to charge them back to those who are doing the printing. Charging back these costs can help significantly reduce operational costs. Find out how!

Creating a print intelligent enterprise:How better management of printing can create business value
Whilst many organisations have invested resources in managing their IT infrastructure, few apply the same strategic focus to the document output environment. This can represent a huge cost drain, estimated to represent between 1% and 3% of total revenue. A managed and optimised print environment will lead to significant cost reductions whilst improving productivity and boosting any organisation’s green credentials.

End-to-end strategies for reducing imaging and printing costs
A lot has been said about the high cost of imaging and printing these days (as much as six percent annual revenue across all industries according to InfoTrends1). But what is perhaps less well understood is the specific nature of the costs that factor into the total. The UK-based IT analyst firm Quocirca suggests that the hardware price of a printer represents just five percent of the total cost of ownership.

Exploring your print management options: Issues and insights
This paper considers three approaches to managing printing and imaging that an organisation can consider, and it examines the pros and cons of each one.

Spotlight on Productivity
It’s a fact that simply confirms what IT professionals have suspected for some time. Improving staff efficiency is essential if IT departments hope to meet business unit mandates and still find time for the strategic IT projects that drive business growth.

Gartners Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services
Gartner's Managed Print Services Magic Quadrant is a useful starting point for identifying and evaluating managed print services.

Spotlight on Costs: Putting a price on document-based business processes
Documents have become a kind of currency in today’s information-driven economy. Yet the business tasks they necessitate exact a steep labor toll, as these results from an IDC study of financial services, government, manufacturing and healthcare organizations in the U.S. indicate.The good news is that this same study also found that there are significant savings opportunities to be had by streamlining document-intensive processes.

The top five most common hidden imaging and printing infrastructure costs
Here is a quick look at five of the most common concealed costs (read: savings opportunities) and why it pays to act on them now.