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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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.

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Reminder: One Day Left to Enter your Admin Pro to win @ SE Laser.

Greetings! , You have one day left to enter your Admin Pro (or yourself) on our drawing. The deadline is Tuesday at 10:00 am Eastern.   Administrative Professionals Day 2010 is April 21.    SE Laser is buying lunch for the whole office for one lucky Admin Pro.  Five more Admin Pros will receive a beautiful flower delivery.   Here's how it works:  Go to our online entry form. Tell us who your Admin Pro is.  We will randomly draw the winners from all the names submitted. How's that for easy?   Don't worry about us prank calling anybody, or giving information to scammers.  We're not like that anymore.  Actually, we never were like that.   By our definition, an Admin Pro is anybody who has a boss and a computer who works with other people in an office.   The random drawing will take place on Tuesday, April 20 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.  So don't delay. Click here to enter.  Good Luck! Andy Brasfield Southeastern Laser   Phone: 865-675-5900. Email: abrasfield@southeasternlaser.com  PS.  It's ok to enter your own name in the drawing, in case your boss forgets.

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Admin Pro Day is Apr 21. Enter your Admin Pro to win @ SE Laser.

Greetings!, Administrative Professionals Day 2010 is April 21.    SE Laser is buying lunch for the whole office for one lucky Admin Pro.  Five more Admin Pros will receive a beautiful flower delivery.   Here's how it works:  Go to our online entry form. Tell us who your Admin Pro is.  We will randomly draw the winners from all the names submitted. How's that for easy?   Don't worry about us prank calling anybody, or giving information to scammers.  We're not like that anymore.  Actually, we never were like that.   By our definition, an Admin Pro is anybody who has a boss and a computer who works with other people in an office.   The random drawing will take place on Tuesday, April 20 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.  So don't delay. Click here to enter.  Good Luck! Andy Brasfield Southeastern Laser   Phone: 865-675-5900. Email: abrasfield@southeasternlaser.com  PS.  It's ok to enter your own name in the drawing, in case your boss forgets.

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Media Sciences International, Inc. Receives NASDAQ Notice Regarding Minimum Bid Price - Subject to Delisting

The article below caught my eye because we routinely advise owners of Xerox Phaser Solid Ink printers to use only Genuine Xerox Brand Solid Ink. We've seen too many of these printers require repairs associated with the use of non-Xerox solid ink products, including products from Media Sciences.

Our stance on solid ink almost seems hypocritical since our business is built on reman and compatible toner and ink products. Our customers, on average, save from 25-50% on printer supplies compared to name brand.

But, there is a difference in the various technologies of the printers we service and supply: Laser, Inkjet and Solid Ink. Laser (or toner based) printers, and inkjet (or liquid ink based) printer respond very well to the high quality toner and ink products we supply. However, the technology engineered in the Xerox solid ink line of Phaser printers is unique. All compatible products we've tested and seen in the field produce lower quality color, can clog the print-head, and often get stuck in the ink loader.

And now, the article, from CNN:

Media Sciences International, Inc. Receives NASDAQ Notice Regarding Minimum Bid Price - Subject to Delisting

OAKLAND, N.J., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSII) today announced that it received a NASDAQ Staff Determination on March 16, 2010 indicating that the Company has not regained compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement for continued listing set forth in NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2), and that the Company's securities are, therefore, subject to delisting from The NASDAQ Capital Market. The Company has requested a hearing before a Hearings Panel to review the Staff Determination. The request for a hearing will stay the delisting pending the Panel's decision. There can be no assurance that the Panel will grant the Company's request for continued listing.

Media Sciences International, Inc. is the leading independent manufacturer of new build solid ink and color toner cartridges for office color printers. As the premium quality color toner and solid ink alternative to the printer manufacturer's brand, Media Sciences' 100% newly manufactured color toner and solid ink products for use in Dell®, Konica Minolta®, OKI®, Ricoh®, Samsung®, and Xerox® and many other color printers deliver significant savings when compared to the printer manufacturers brand.

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Andy Brasfield
Southeastern Laser

Phone 865-675-5900 ext 103.

PS. Do you know anyone who would like to save 25-50% on their office printing expenses? Visit www.southeasternlaser.com/printercartridges to learn more about compatible printer cartridges and managed print solutions.

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Andy Brasfield
Southeastern Laser

Phone 865-235-1DAD (1323)
Office 865-675-5900

PS. Do you know anyone who would like to save 25-50% on their office printing expenses? Visit www.southeasternlaser.com/printercartridges to learn more about compatible printer cartridges and managed print solutions.

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