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Are your staff spending too much time talking and not enough time
working? If they are, it could be the fault of your print infrastructure.
New research from Brother International (see page 7) suggests that office
workers are more productive if they don't have to walk to a departmental
MFP to collect their prints. This is largely on the basis that the further
away a print device is, the greater the chance of being waylaid by a
colleague. Brother found that such encounters added 3 minutes to the
total time each employee spends printing every day, which you may want
to factor in to your calculations. Or you might take the view that 3 minutes
is a small price to pay for the opportunity to swap ideas with people from
other teams, even if you only talk about what was on TV last night.
Whatever the merits of Brother’s analysis, the fashion today is clearly
for a balanced deployment of desktop A4 MFPs and large departmental
A3 devices. In part, this is made possible by the greater functionality of
modern A4 machines, which are essentially mini versions of their A3
cousins. A good example is the Sharp MX-C301W reviewed on page 28.
This has the same user interface and solutions platform as Sharp’s A3
models, enabling administrators to extend print solutions, controls and
accounting across an entire fleet.
The renaissance of the office inkjet adds an
interesting twist to these developments.
Working in a small branch office and
having low print volumes,
the
PrintIT
editorial team
is a great advocate of
business inkjets that have
low running costs, low
energy consumption and
environmental benefits, both
locally, i.e. for the user, and globally.
Recently, we have been testing an Epson Eco Tank MFP (see page 5),
which comes with extra large ink tanks containing as much ink as 55
conventional inkjet cartridges. For home offices and micro businesses,
this seems a much better arrangement – and not only because you
don’t have to keep buying new cartridges. With replacement ink bottles
costing just £7.99 each and typically lasting two years, these printers are
exceptionally economical.
It’s not just small businesses that benefit from business inkjets. At the
Photizo MPS conference in October, HP explained how Merck was using
them throughout its offices as part of an enterprise-wide strategy to
reduce print costs. HP’s latest models have been specially designed
for enterprises and feature the same platform and functionality as
enterprise Laserjets. For its part, Epson now provides its workgroup
devices in configurations designed exclusively for MPS providers.
PrintIT
readers have the chance to win an Epson business inkjet by filling
in the print survey on pages 17-19. I know three pages of questions
seems a lot, but the survey has been designed to be completed very
quickly and the results will help us tailor our editorial to your needs.
You can even avoid the hassle of posting or emailing your responses,
by completing the survey online at
BusinessPrintingSurvey
. Many thanks and good luck to all those who
take the time to fill it in.
James Goulding,
Editor
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What’s New
New printer products and initiatives
07
Bulletin
Developments in printing and
document management
13
Production Print
Why corporate print centres
need to expand their offering
14
Cover Story
Olivetti launches new range of
mono A4 MFPs
17
Reader Survey
Win an Epson business inkjet
21
Trends
You say copier, they say MFP:
who’s right?
24
Vendor Profile
The rise and rise of DSales (UK)
27
Business Processes
New research shows the
Paper Wars are far from over
28
Review
We test the Sharp MX-C301W
30
Paper Reduction
Why paper is still a drain
on productivity
32
Electronic Workflow
Moving from paper-based
to digital workflows
35
Case Study
How TA Triumph-Adler has
helped GreenSquare save
money
WINTER 2104/15
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