Message from Our Advertiser - Lexmark
Save time, money and the environment
‘Print Less?’ This may seem like a surprising message for a company 100% dedicated to printing and output solutions. But when you consider some important facts, it makes a lot of sense. Today, 70% of companies don’t even know how much they spend on printing (IDC). One page out of six goes directly to the waste bin without ever being read (IPSOS*). And 20% of printed documents are actively used for less than five minutes!
Documents can have a severe impact on your business. This is why Lexmark have built a precise four-step methodology to help companies dramatically enhance the way they work – and the way they print. But increasing efficiency should never mean compromising the environment. Lexmark’s solid commitment to protecting the environment is as established as the company itself. We’re constantly striving to reduce resource consumption, lower emissions and produce less waste at every stage of our product lifecycle process.
1. Optimise your device architecture
2. Improve your daily device management
3. Implement efficient practices
4. Streamline your workflow processes
Optimise your device architecture
Are your devices working for you or against you? How many disparate document devices are floating around your company – including printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines? Do you know how much this may be impairing your profitability?
Lexmark helps you install the right devices at the right places for the right printing volumes at the right time.
Proactively managing your installed base can save you up to 30% in costs*. Besides the quantitative burdens of a disjointed infrastructure, many of the real inefficiencies don’t even show up on the balance sheet. An essential component of your architecture optimisation will come from device consolidation. With our industry leading multifunction devices (MFP), you can consolidate all your document functions (print, copy, scan, fax) into a single, high-performance, space-sensitive device.
The objective is not only reducing the number of devices but also improving people productivity. By truly understanding your document needs, Lexmark will propose the most effective distributed-printing environment for your business, offering the best combination of devices – from A3 to A4, colour and mono desktop printers to workgroup lasers and high-performance MFPs.
*source Gartner, «Hype Cycle for printing markets and management, 2006», 11 July 200
What does all this mean to you?
- a boost in employee productivity
- a boost in user satisfaction
- Proximity and availability of the devices for all users
- a modular cost-saving solution that evolves at your pace
Implement efficient practices
Why not make things simpler?
With the average printing volume of 1,000 pages per month per employee*, there are significant savings to be made. So now that you’ve optimised your device architecture and armed yourself with the most-effective tools in the industry, how do you make the most of these tools? How do you implement the right practices when it comes to reducing the number of pages you print daily? How do you promote responsible, cost-conscious habits among your employees?
More than just intuitive, high-performance machines, Lexmark printers and MFPs are designed to help you implement the most responsible, cost-efficient practices with total ease!
Lexmark devices offer many ways to work smarter :
• Duplex printing reduce paper waste and costs
• Multiple toner-saver levels to save up to 50% on toner costs
• High-yield cartridges allow a lower cost-per-page
• On-screen scan previews allow you to check layouts before you print
• Scan straight to email, PC, network folder or USB key to save time and paper
• Exclusive ColorCare technology lets you decide who can print in colour
• Employee-access restrictions via user ID and password
• Cutting-edge data security features keep corporate information safe
• Lexmark’s Cartridge Collection Programme promotes effective recycling
*Source: IPSOS, May 2007
What does all this mean to you?
- colour documents printed only when needed - smarter ways of sharing information, without printing
- critical corporate information is always secure
- higher productivity for your company
- significant daily cost savings
- employees participate in a greener tomorrow
Streamline your workflow processes
Why not benefit from the digital world where it’s more efficient?
In today’s competitive business arena, there’s less room for slow, costly, paper intensive processes, like shipping piles of hard copies to multiple destinations, or stocking up on pre-printed forms. Plus, besides being too slow and too expensive, lost documents and manual data-entry errors can hamper productivity while weakening your reactivity to your own customers. In this day and age, there’s an abundance of information but not enough information management. It’s now more important than ever to streamline workflow and break free from the constraints of paper.
The ultimate information-management hub, Lexmark MFPs offer a multitude of ways to streamline document processes, boost productivity and save money. Today, end-users can easily step up to the device, scan their documents and dispatch them to a number of destinations – including email, PC, network folders, archives or Electronic Content Management applications ECMs). It’s all as simple as touching the screen!
For an even greater level of productivity, you can benefit from Lexmark’s advanced workflow applications, which include e-forms, documents on demand and many others. In fact, Lexmark’s newest MFPs offer an embedded-solutions framework, which allows you to run these applications locally, thus taking the burden off your network.
What does all this mean to you?
- automate tasks and streamline manual processes
- Be more reactive to your customers and partners
- Minimise lost documents - dramatically accelerate transaction times
- no more unused printed pages floating around
*Source: IPSOS, May 2007 Survey carried out of 1408 chief executives of SMBs, on behalf of Lexmark, in France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the US