Small Biz Printing & Copying- price per copy

Pthree

Good Morning,

I work in an office where on average we print around 10-15,000 pages a month mainly colour. My boss seems to think we are paying of the odds on our price per copy, but I have yet to find anyone that will even match our current price let alone beat it. Of course this is cause I am not trying hard enough :mad: so I am just wondering what everyone else pays?

P3

droopsnoot

It depends - if you're printing stuff like brochures or flyers it can often be cheaper to get them done elsewhere. I used to use an online printing company which I forget the name of now, but any few than a few hundred of the same thing and it's not cost-effective. Hard to know if they would be cheaper than your current cost as it's been a few years since I tried them, and you didn't say what your current cost is, and for what size/qty.

Pthree

Hi

We do print booklets, flyers and brochures now and again but this is not a huge percentage of our printing which is mainly emails, letters, reports etc. standard office stuff

We are paying .045p for colour and .005p for mono at the moment So our bills tend to average out at around £650-ish a month over a year.

Of course that includes all the servicing of the machine, toners, spare bits, staples etc.

Kernel_Sanders

Pthree wrote: »

We are paying .045p for colour and .005p for mono at the moment ......Of course that includes all the servicing of the machine, toners, spare bits, staples etc.

So,
22 sheets of colour or 200 b/w for a penny. Where are you having it printed, Nepal?

Ectophile

If most of the printing is just emails, letters and the like, then why is most of it in colour?

Where I work, they have set all the printer drivers to default to black and white. If you want a print in colour, you have to change it for that particular print job.

paddyrg

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

So,
22 sheets of colour or 200 b/w for a penny. Where are you having it printed, Nepal?

Maybe that price doesn't include paper or toner?

Anyway, most colour printing is unnecessary, it's either office staff 'crafting', marketing people printing spreadsheets with coloured headers, pompous notices about items left in the fridge on Fridays etc. How about actually disabling colour/replacing the machine and when you do need colour flyers etc you go to a proper print shop? Laser printer/copiers are convenient for small runs but dreadful when you need any kind of volume in which case a local print place will be cheaper overall, faster, fewer breakdowns, able to use litho for volume, and just better finished, etc. Just plan campaigns in more depth.