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When printer cost as much as a small car, since those days, printer price have plummeted and most businesses have multiple printer but networking is still compelling, as your business grows, assuming that the economy turns around at some point, you’ll need to reassess your printer fleet, you can probably justify replacing a few desktop printers with more expensive network printer. Based on the saving in operating cost, various tools such as HP’s, Konica, NetCare, Toshiba and Xerox’s office document assessment can help you calculate those thing and manage your entire printer fleet, but they’re largely design to handle printer from one vendor, an alternative is printsolv, from the large distributor Synnex.
Once you’ve review your printer fleet, you might want to start shopping around for new printer, the market these days consist of three basic price levels under $150 around $300 to $500 and over $1000, the lowest price printer are typically inject model and you’ll pay a lot for their consumables, the middle tier has same interesting buys right now because vendors are making monochrome lasers that are quite capable and can operate for years without problem.
Laser printer are quite compact and reliable, they also come with a built in wired network adapter and the software setup is relatively simple but they are just monochrome, if you need color prints, you’ll have to spend more, per page cost for color is about three to five times that of monochrome prints and buying one color printer for a network is much more cost effective, Xerox phaser use solid ink stick that look a bit like crayons, if you shop at the right time of year.
Xerox offer free black sticks so you can use the printers for all of your needs, attaching your printer to a wireless network typically means spending $150 of so for the correct adapter, recommend using a wired connection instead, if your office setup permits it, you want to prevent your wireless network from being bogged down with print jobs and you also want your printer to stay in one place. Multifunction printer that can also scan and fax and do the dishes when you aren’t looking, they’re fine for consumers with light demands, but for office purpose you are better off using individual machines for each task, unless you can afford top of the line models.