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Xerox WorkCentre 6400 Review
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Xerox WorkCentre 6400
Have you been looking for a color copier in Fort Collins and want some thing reliable and easy to use? The Xerox WorkCentre 6400 may be just right for you! This copier would not be great if you are doing 5,000 color prints a month because the cost per print is far too high for this kind of volume when compare to other Xerox copier products. However, if you are doing 500 to 1,500 color copies a month, this could be perfect because the cost of the Xerox WorkCentre 6400 is so low here in Fort Collins.
Copier reps in Fort Collins will want to sell you an expensive tabloid capable copier no matter what your volume of color prints are, so this is something to consider if you do not like the typical $7,000 or so price tag on a copier in Fort Collins. Please give us a call for your Fort Collins Copier needs!
Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI in Fort Collins!
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Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI Review
Have you been looking for a color copier in Fort Collins? A lot of people will simply call their copier rep and buy whatever their Fort Collins copier rep recommends. Before you do this, let us give you a few reasons to consider the Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI:
- The Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI has one of the lowest TCO’s in the industry
- The Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI uses long life parts which help the environment (OK, technically it does not “help” the environment to have waste… maybe we should say, “hurt less” since there is so much less waste
- The Kyocera 300CI in using long life copier parts makes it so you don’t have to get copier maintenance in Fort Collins as much.
These are the top three reasons to look at the Kyocera TaskAlfa 300CI in Fort Colins. Call us for any copier need though!
Is Your Fort Collins Copier Costing a Bundle?
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Many companies in Fort Collins are spending a ton on their printers and their copiers. The Gartner Group estimates that 3% of a companies revenues are spent on printing and copying. This is a massive number. Especially if you conside for a $10,000,000 a year company, we would expect $300,000 to go to printers and copiers. The biggest issues is most of these remain unmanaged.
If you own a company, do you know how much each page costs you? If you are like 95% of the customers without a print management strategy in Fort Collins, you do not. This would be like owning a fleet of vehicles and having NO IDEA what gas was costing you. Laser Printers which are unmanaged, are almost always expensive. Copiers are just as bad.
What do you need to do?
- Stop Buying!! Assess where you are, how many pages are being printed, by whom, etc
- Have analysis (either internal or external) done so you can look for cost savings or headache saving measures for your organization
- Call us for a free on site assessment!
Xerox WorkCentre 4260 Product Review
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WorkCentre 4260 by Xerox
Xerox has become more competitivc in the copier market since launching the WorkCentre 4260 Copier. I don’t feel it is quite as good of a value as the Lexmark X658dfe, but it is close, and if the logo on the front of the box matters to you, Xerox is a name that is hard to go wrong with.
Why would you want to consider the WorkCentre 4260 copier in Fort Collins? First of all, it starts under $3,000 for a 55 page per minute copier. HP has some models like the HP Laserjet 4515 which costs almost as much and is only a printer. Xerox, HP, Lexmark, and Sharp have all been pushing what is called A4 copiers. This does not support tabloid printing, but has a strong engine that goes fast at a fraction of the cost of the big copiers.
If you would like a demo or to just talk more about your copier needs, please give us a call!
Are You Looking for a Copier in Fort Collins?
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Let the Ratrace Begin!
What’s the worst thing ever? Well, barely behind that is the normal occurance of having 15 printer and copier reps all trying to fight for your business. It’s a rat race for sure, everyone trying to climb to the top of the mountain. We are a pushy lot, by nature… so it means that each rep will call you multiple times and at the end, you get short with everyone! You just get tired of so many sales calls. So, what can you do? You boss wants to make sure you are making the best investment for your money here in FC. So, you get as many quotes as you can. There is a problem with this logic though.
If I find out a customer is talking to more than 3 copier reps, it tells me several things. 1) They are going to grind everything down to a halt about 100 times because the pleothera of info will cause freezes in action. 2) They are likely to find someone who’ll give something away, and even if it is a bad fit, it won’t matter because customers generally want to feel like they are getting a good deal, not actually buy the best copier for their needs and get a good value in doing this. 3) They are unlikely to be efficient or pull the trigger fast because everytime they try to, there will be 9 voices telling them not to. It’s hard to make any decision, because almost all decisons are “wrong.”
So what can you do?
- Limit quotes to 2 or maybe 3 companies and tell the rep to be competitive because you are getting a quote from another company.
- Have a budget for a copier so you don’t waste a bunch of time.
- Have a max budget (but don’t tell this number to the copier reps), so you can see if what you get is in line with what’s suggested.
- Call your reps back with action steps and your planned stages for decisons. “Thanks for the quote, we are going to make a decison next Friday. You can call next Thursday to go over your quote so I can understand it before we make our final decison.” — A customer who did this would be worth going the extra mile for in terms of price!
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Faxing in Fort Collins – Alternatives
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Are You Using Old Technology?
The fax machine has been a staple of businesses for as long as most of us can remember. With familiarity, there is always (ALWAYS) a resistance to change. This is true with the office copier as much as it is with anything else. I thought I would use this post as an opportunity to talk about why scanning is generally better than faxing.
- Scanning or Scan to Email is better because when you send a scan to someone’s E mail, you can prove they received it… A fax can always be lost.
- Scanning and E mailing doesn’t cost money to do “long distance.”
- Scanning has clearer image quality
- Scanning has the document already in electronic format, like most people want
- Scanning if faster than faxing
Maybe you fax because your customers make you. That’s a fair reason to keep using a fax. If you are asking people to fax ir offering to fax, you need to experience scan to E mail (done well)!
Don’t Become the Target of a Greedy Copier Rep!
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Are You a Target?
I have dealt with two companies in Fort Collins this week that have OVERBOUGHT on their last copier to such an extreme that I had to ask “are you sure” about 5 times in each situation.
In the first situation, it was an architechture firm who had spent about $20,000 on their last copier to print just 800 color copies a month and 1200 Black and White Copies. Yes, 2,000 copies a month for 3 years and spent over $20,000.00 … If you work out the math, and count color and black and white as equal (which they aren’t) this company has been spending more than $.27 per copy. I think this was a severe overkill.
Situation #2 had a title company with about 3,000 pages a month and they bought a 55 page per minute black and white machine on a 63 month lease. They spend about $375 a month for these prints. (That’s what her contract costs a month.) Do the math again and you’ll see that she’s paying $.125 per print. problem is, none of them are color prints.
There are a lot of copier reps who want to over sell you. We don’t subscribe to this theory. if you have been getting hosed over by your copier company, feel free to call them so they can do it some more, or call us and get a competitive quote here in Fort Collins.
If You’re a New Business, Don’t Let Copiers Keep you From Getting Off The Ground
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If you're trying to get your Fort Collins business off the ground, copiers help or hurt!
There are a lot of expenses that go into your small business in Fort Collins. One of the necessary expenses is your print and copier needs. Small business owners who negotiate successfully on every other supply often seem to be the ones who end up over-paying on their Fort Collins copier bills. This is unfortunate as most businesses I deal with are usually paying at least 20% more on their current copier, color copier, and print budget than they actually need to! Some of this is due to ignorance. Some is due to being oversold by a copier rep (see the previous article!). And some is due to wasteful office practices.
Copier budgets (if managed frugally and efficiently) can help you make sure your resources are being used wisely. Instead of paying for features and copies your not using (a common mistake!), you’ll know that the $1,000 you saved on finishing options can be replaced by a $15 dollar stapler and a three hole punch! In a compeditive business environment, monthly and up-front savings can be the difference between getting your Fort Collins business off the ground, or having to fold.
For tips, advice, and print analysis, and copier comparison give me a call for a solution that is tailored to your business needs in Fort Collins.
I Watch Customers Throw Away Cash and I Can’t Do a Thing About It!
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Stop Throwing Away Cash on Unneeded Features!
We all keep hearing about the economy and how terrible it is in Fort Collins. Yet as a copier dealer, I sometimes wonder because resources can be spent so inefficiently! So, this is a horror story blog/rant today…
I was working with a real estate agency and there were about 25 people in the real estate office. It is a thriving agency with many talented people. They have had Oce copiers for about 3 years and their lease is coming up. They had asked for some pricing and comparative analysis. I ran their current numbers and they were spending close to 50k per year between the 5 offices they had. This was for all their copiers, so it seemed reasonable. Until I asked questions. Once I started asking questions, well… the whole logic seemed crazy!
First of all, they were only making about 10,000 prints and black and white copiers in their biggest office. Now, this sounds like a lot, but they had a 65 page per minute copier there rather than something like an HP Laserjet 4345x. That surprised me because this was a $30,000 copier instead of a $4,000 copier. Their reasoning was that they couldn’t be waiting for copy jobs. Problem with the logic, the Oce had a warm up time of 90 seconds… our suggestion had a 10 second warm up time. For 99% of the jobs this office did, the “slower” 55 page per minute copier would finish a job about 45 seconds faster.
“It’s too small”
Yes, that’s right, that is what the customer (actually, not a customer because we couldn’t talk any sense into them) said. We want a big machine because of our heavy volume. Wow. 10,000 pages, fyi, is not heavy volume! When I ran what I was proposing vs what they were doing and getting quoted on, our bid came in at $75,000 for 3 years rather than $150,000. They went with the “big copier” and we are left scratching our heads. For all of you who find copier reps annoying and dishonest in Fort Collins… I am beginning to see where you are coming from. Becasue they trusted their rep on this one, they’ll be paying $25k extra a year. I hope he is right!
Don’t Get Snowed Under Because Your Copier Was not Set Up Well!
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Don't Get Snowed Under Because You Copier Wasn't Installed Correctly
As a copier rep in Fort Collins, one of the more amazing things I see is that people pay $10,000 for a high end copier, and then they don’t even have all of the features set up properly. I will ask them to send me a quick scan to email and they blankly look at me and then say they never had that feature set up. What?? One of the most common things people do, and they didn’t bother to have it set up. Now if they need a scan, it requires some kludgy system that no one really knows how to do very well…
Copiers are complex machines. When you pay for a copier, you are not just paying for the engine that makes the prints, but also the interface and the software that comes with the copier. I agree unnecessary items should not be installed, as it only adds to confusion… but your rep should take the time to let you know what is available and see if there is a need for that feature. If they are merely trying to get you to sign on the line that is dotted, rather than actually trying to help your office be happy and efficient, i would say you are working with the wrong rep.
If you need a copier in Fort Collins, please give me a call and i will be happy to go over all your options with you.
