Office Document Strategies Blog

Bringing Managed Print Services (MPS) to the SMB Client

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, May 26, 2010 @ 10:05 AM

There is a lot of discussion in the printing industry these days about managed print services.  According to the Managed Print Services Association this concept is, "Managed print services is the active management and optimization of document output devices and related business processes".  To date the focus of these concepts has been the large enterprise, organizations with hundreds or even thousands of print devices.  Over time the concept is working its way into the SMB space where organizations with a few printers or multifunction printers can begin to think along the same vein.  

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Topics: Multifunction Printer, MFP, Document, cost of printing, Managed Print Services, MPS

Is Your Colour Printer Eating Your Pocketbook- Part Two?

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Mon, May 17, 2010 @ 15:05 PM

In Part One of  this blog we talked about some of the choices to be made in controlling and deploying your colour printer.  But how do you decide between all of the options out there?  Is a small inexpensive printer the way to go?  Or would a larger more robust device be better?  One of the key decisions can be based upon the total cost of ownership for your device.

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Topics: Printer, Colour printer, cost of printing