Print Auditing

Printing is an essential part of the office process… and yet costs can easily spiral out of control. Even a small department with just some promotional output and day-to-day printing can easily break 25,000 pages per quarter.

Principal have over 15 years experience in selling, leasing and supporting printers, photocopiers and today’s multifunctional machines which print, copy and scan, and fit seamlessly into your networked computing environment. However, as well as the equipment, we also offer solutions which will keep down the cost of your printing, and ensure that printed documents only find their way to the intended recipients.

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Print auditing allows you to

• Monitor print costs and take action to reduce them
• For professional services companies, measure print costs and pass them on to clients
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Follow-Me Printing

• How do you keep track of who has printed a document?
• In an open-plan office, how do you prevent unauthorised access to printed documents?
• It’s even worse if printers are located some distance away, in another room.

Follow-Me printing solves all these problems by using proximity cards.

Each staff member is issued with a proximity card, which serves both to tally usage of printers (and other devices) and to ensure that documents end up in the right hands. Printing of a document under the proximity system will only commence when the recipient is within range of the designated printer.

There are several additional benefits, for example :

• Users can be restricted to specific machines. This means that users can be barred from high-cost units such as plotters or inkjets
• You can define credits, allowing users specific spending ceilings.
• Costs can be monitored effectively on an individual or departmental basis.
• And the proximity cards can even be used for time and attendance monitoring too!

Of course, the ROI is clear- these solutions are designed to save you far more in reduced print costs than the cost of implementation.

Your Principal Consultant will be able to give you a calculation of returns based on your specific circumstances- for more details call 0800 132908