Understanding The Cost Per Page
To understand how print migration works, it is
important to make the distinction between a low cost device and a high cost device. An MFP (Multifunctional Printer) for instance, is obviously larger and has a higher up front cost compared to a desktop printer, but as any purchaser knows, the supply cost of a desktop printer is much higher than that of the MFP.
Most people are surprised to learn that the total cost per page difference can often be 10 to 1. The reason for this is that most printers (even high efficiency lasers) require additional maintenance kits and other consumables over the product's life cycle. |
The cost per page for a desktop printer is significantly higher than an MFP over the entire product life cycle. |
Consolidation & Efficiency
The key point here is to realize that a single MFP device can be used for the equivalent volume of possibly 12 or more desktop printers. Not only is the cost per print much lower on an MFP device, but there is less of an administrative burden associated to maintaining multiple print devices throughout an office environment, not to mention the savings in electricity costs. |
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Staff Need To Buy In
The key to print migration is the willingness of an organization to divert more printing volume to lower cost-per page devices (such as de-centralized MFP’s) and to only use high cost per page desktop printers for smaller print jobs. |
 Staff need to buy into a print migration initiative, but leadership must come from the top.
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