Xerox Education Discount - Additional 10% Discount Ends July 31st

The discount
The Xerox Education Discount Program offers eligible educational institutions exclusive discounts. These discounts are in addition to existing U.S. customer rebates to make purchasing Xerox award-winning printers and multifunction printers more affordable for schools than ever.

Effective April 1 – July 31, 2010, the Xerox Education Discount will increase to give you:
1. Up to an additional 5% off Xerox printers and MFPs.
2. Up to an additional 10% off top selling products to educators.

Eligible products
The Education Program applies to current, predefined printer and MFP models only. Service, supplies, remanufactured or used printers and MFPs accessories are not eligible.

Eligible customers
Non-profit, tax-exempt, public or private, full-time, college or university that awards diplomas or degrees. Eligible institutions include 4–year colleges and universities, 2–year colleges, vocation and technical schools and K–12 schools.

For more information or to take advantage of this offer, click here or contact us today.

SE Laser
865-675-5900
www.southeasternlaser.com

When it comes to laser printers, how old is too old?

 

 

 

“For most enterprises, more than half of their printer fleet is over five years old.”

 

Like any piece of equipment, a printer is more likely to break down more often if it is an older model. Consequently, service costs go up due to the number of breakdowns that occur, and productivity goes down every time a printer is out of commission. 

 

In addition, older printers tend to be inefficient; it is not unusual to find printers tucked away in the enterprise somewhere that print no more than eight pages a minute. 

 

Finally, the cost of supplies for older devices tends to be higher; ink cartridges for older models, for example, often have lower yields and therefore need to be replaced more frequently, adding to the cost per page for printing. 

 

For all these reasons, eliminating older printers helps to reduce hardcopy costs. The older devices may be phased out altogether if the ratio of

printers to users is unnecessarily high. Or, they may be replaced by reliable, efficient new printers or by MFPs, which consolidate print, copy, fax and even scan functions into a single device.

 

To find out just how old you printer fleet is, contact SE Laser today.

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Andy Brasfield
Southeastern Laser

Phone 865-675-5900 x 103
Mobile 865-235-1DAD (1323)

PS.  If you know anyone who is looking for a better printer cartridge, please give them my name.  Thanks.

Matthew 10:40

desktop vs. departmental printers

As individual desktop printers have dropped in price, many employees have begun to use them instead of using departmental or workgroup printers. 

It is easy to attempt to justify this by citing the low cost of personal printers. Some may even argue that individual printers increase productivity because users do not waste time walking to a shared printer. These are fallacies. The purchase price of individual desktop printers can easily be outweighed over time by the cost of consumables; toner cartridges or ink cartridges for personal printers tend to cost more per page than those used for work-group printers.  And shared printers can be strategically located to eliminate the potential for any detrimental effect on productivity.

While personal printers have their place – for bank tellers working at individual customer windows, for example – shared printers more often lead to lower costs at minimal inconvenience to users.

To learn more about how to choose the best printer for your business, contact SE Laser today.

SE Laser Twitter hack resolved.

You may have noticed, over the past few days, some unusual tweets and blog posts from SE Laser.

It took a couple days to locate the compromise.  We want to share it with you so you might avoid the same troubles.  The hacker entered via the post-by-email feature on our blog here at selaser.blogspot.com.  This feature allows users to blog by simply sending an email to a secret email address.  When the email is received by Blogger, it is posted according to the settings previously selected by the user.

There is no password required when posting by this method.  That's why the email address is secret.  The address itself is the password for that feature.  In our case, the address was easy to guess.  We've disabled the feature on our blog for now.  The strange messages are blocked.

We recommend to our fellow bloggers to be aware of this feature on Blogger and set the secret email to something more secure.

Ratio of printers to people in workplace, 1 to 4.

According to HP's studies, large enterprises tend to have far more printers than they need, with an average ratio of printers to users of one printer for every 4.4 people.

This may be to some extent because the purchase price of personal desktop printers has become extremely attractive, which could be causing

more printers to find their way to more individual desktops. Or it may be because, "One of the major problems enterprises encounter in trying to dispose of older printers is that employees sometimes reinstall them in their own offices."  The problem in either case is that the more printers an enterprise operates, the greater its costs for supplies, maintenance, support and management of them.

SE Laser helps companies and organizations reduce their printing expenses by an average of 30 percent.  Want to see if we can help your business save money?  Contact us today.

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Andy Brasfield
Southeastern Laser

Phone 865-675-5900 x 103
Mobile 865-235-1DAD (1323)

PS.  If you know anyone who is looking for a better printer cartridge, please give them my name.  Thanks.

Matthew 10:40