Small desktop printers can be found scattered throughout most business offices both large and small. Even though small desktop printers have their purpose of providing a convenient means of printing without getting up from one’s desk you will want to beware of the high costs of printer ink/toner cartridges necessary to use these printers. If you are printing modest volumes and printing standard printed pages the costs may not be too noticeable. However, if you are printing marketing pieces such as flyers, real estate brochures etc. on a desktop printer you may be astounded to realize how much each page is costing. You may already realize how expensive the replacement toner and ink cartridges cost for your desktop printer.
Desktop Printers Not Always the Best Option
It is important to note that when researching the projected page yields of any given printer cartridge these yields are almost universally based on the assumption that the average printed page has only 5% page coverage with 95% of the page left blank. Therefore, if you are printing photos or full color brochures with the image covering the entire page you can expect to receive just 1/20th of the projected 5% yield resulting in extremely high costs of each printed page. It is not an exaggeration to note that if you are printing documents that are full page coverage you may be spending as much as $1.00 a page or more just to cover the costs of replacement print cartridges.
If paying $1.00 a page have you asking if there is a better solution then read on; In the event that your company prints a significant volume of color marketing materials you may want to consider a Konica Minolta color copier/printer/scanner. Unlike desktop printers most business copier-printer-scanners don’t require you to purchase replacement ink or toner cartridges.
With business copiers you generally have a monthly lease that includes an all-inclusive service and supply agreement that provides everything other than paper. In most cases with a Konica Minolta color copier you’re all-inclusive service and supply agreement has a cap on the total cost to produce a printed page regardless of the page coverage/page density of the printed pages being produced. In the previous paragraph we have stressed the fact that if you are printing materials with full page coverage on a desktop printer you can be looking at a cost of $1.00 a page or more. With the Konica Minolta business color copiers you will likely have a cap of 6 or 7 cents a page which includes all toner and all other parts, supplies and service necessary to produce your materials. Not only will a Konica Minolta color copier/printer/scanner give you a low, fixed cost for each printed page, it will also provide a faster print speed, superior image quality, wider variety of paper sizes and card stocks and a huge array of features to enhance your efficiency. If you’re printing color marketing materials on a desktop printer it may behoove your company to consider other options therefore contact us.
