Very few organizations have an aggregate view of their printing costs. Not surprisingly, printing has become a large hidden and uncontrollable IT expense. Getting buy-in to control printing costs and consolidate printers is tricky, with pushback from end users and senior management. Critical Insight - Discovering how much the company is currently spending on printing is the first step to achieving management buy-in for printer consolidation. - Visible management support is important to help drive a printing-aware culture. - Simply changing your managed print services pay model can result in large cost savings. Impact and Result - Determine your current printing costs to justify a printer consolidation project to senior management and obtain visible buy-in. - Consolidate your printers and re-assess your managed print service model to reduce printing costs.

7. Reduce Costs Through Printer Consolidation
Safely confront IT’s third rail.
Printing has become a large hidden expense in IT. Printer consumables are being purchased autonomously by each department, non-networked printers are everywhere, and everyone seems to be printing in
color.
You’d like to control your printing costs, but this is no easy task:
· Printers are a sensitive topic and initiatives involving printers often face extreme end-user resistance.
· Few organizations can articulate how much printing is costing them, making the urgency of this situation and cost savings opportunities unclear.
· Often, nobody is accountable for controlling printing costs, so there is a lack of incentive to do so.
How do you begin to tackle this project?
Succeed in printer consolidation by doing the following:
· Uncover your current printing costs – the results are often shocking.
· Earn visible management support using your current printing costs and potential cost savings.
Start with small steps: simply changing your managed print services pay model can result in large cost savings.
1) Organizations can save as much as 65% of total printing costs through printer consolidation efforts.
2) Printer consolidation is not a one-time project. It’s an ongoing effort that involves raising user awareness of printing costs and influencing behavior to promote a printing-aware culture.

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