PrintSmart

PrintSmart - Print Management from LaserCare


Covers all hardware, service & supplies

Cutting the cost and complexity of print management is now absolutely critical to your bottom-line company profits. LaserCare's PrintSmart Solution helps you save and simplify with a complete easy-to-implement usage-based program that leverages your purchasing power into a “bundled” solution that includes any combination of new printers & MFP devices, print cartridges, maintenance & superior-level on-site support, and comprehensive fleet management for your installed base of printers for about a penny per page.

You'll improve management and user efficiency, tighten control, and contain all your print-related expenses company-wide that may result in annual per page cost savings of 40% or more.

Features
  • New approach to acquiring/managing equipment: Buying Pages
  • Does not require any new hardware equipment purchases
  • Flexible pricing structure with no upfront capital outlay
  • Includes any combination of print consumables, maintenance, on-site break/fix support, printers, MFP's, installation & training
  • HP and leading 3rd party software to track print usage
  • Dedicated 9x5 on-site technical staff provided, if applicable
  • Responsive, priority-level local on-site service & support
  • Preventive maintenance Health Checks reduce downtime
  • One single-source vendor, one simple monthly invoice
  • Monthly auto-stocking and management of toner and supplies
  • No minimum volume or long-term contract for installed fleet
Benefits
  • Control and significantly reduce total per-page printing costs
  • No hidden fees: program includes everything except paper
  • Free up valuable IT staff resources for other productive uses
  • Minimize unexpected downtime, maximize enduser satisfaction
  • Administrators stop ordering, stocking & managing supplies
  • Simple billing with management reports and easy cost allocation
  • Take advantage of redeployment opportunities to maxmize ROI
  • Let us help you uncover a potential hidden goldmine of savings
Current Trends and the Future of Network Printing

Document-related expenses cost 5-15% of corporate revenues
Datamation

Paper use is increasing 6-8% each year, and is expected to grow for the next 20 years
Xplor

70% of white-collar time is spent processing paper
DocuTrends

Print volume surpassed copy volume as early as 1995
Hewlett-Packard

90% of all companies do not know what they are currently spending on internal desktop and network printing
Buyers Laboratory Inc.

Output fleets are one of the most overlooked and undermanaged assets costing enterprises 1-3% of revenue per year representing a hidden gold mine of savings
Gartner Group

What is HP's Total Print Management?

Effectively manage your network printing infrastructure. Take control of your printing & imaging network. Most IT departments have no idea how much they are paying for printing. The lack of a comprehensive printing & output fleet management strategy generates increased costs and decreased productivity. Industry Analysts estimate that improved printing and output management can lower your total printing and imaging costs up to 30-50%. That could result in a cost savings of thousands of dollars per year!

TPM is an integrated family of HP hardware, software & services that LaserCare combines with our expertise to reduce costs and increase productivity by improving printing and output management. Using a proven methodology to Assess, Deploy, Manage and Support your printing and imaging infrastructure, LaserCare + HP can significantly increase the return on your IT investment. With these four key components of LaserCare + HP Total Print Management, this innovative approach will help you identify your printing costs and make your print network more efficient, easier to manage, and more available to your users. And best of all, LaserCare and HP's TPM lowers overall printing costs by up to 30-50%*

*statistics based on studies produced by IDC (2000) and Cap Ventures, Inc. (2001)
Annual Printer Operating Cost Savings with Printsmart*

# of Printers
25
50
100
500
1,000
Annual Savings*
$20,000
$40,000
$80,000
$400,000
$800,000

*Savings based on 40,000 annual printer page volume and net savings of just one cent per page.

PrintSmart Managed Services

LaserCare's PrintSmart Managed Services offers a new approach to acquiring and managing office equipment -- simply “buying pages”. You pay for pages produced in a true usage model and LaserCare will provide all of the hardware, service and supplies needed for your business. Without requiring any new hardware purchases, LaserCare assumes responsibility for and management of your company's installed base fleet of printers. This outsourced service frees up your IT department to focus on network initiatives that have a greater business value, helps customers improve efficiencies, control costs and implement fleet management standards.

As part of this service LaserCare will

  • Conduct a detailed assessment and output fleet inventory
  • Create a customized solution to solve asset management issues that may exist
  • Offer flexible methods to aquire new equipment
  • Optimize your output environment with a management program that includes metering & tracking, technology refresh & redeployment recommendations, end-user process definition and development,training & efficient use of equipment and technology, complete on-site maintenance support services, supplies management, and single monthly billing with custom mangement reports