Is it more cost-effective to have a desktop printer or use the network/sharing printing environment?
It’s difficult to determine which is more cost-effective because each situation is different. The challenge is that each unit presents a different printing environment. Print & Copy Services uses the following model to develop a total cost of ownership: * Purchase price of printer * Extended warranty, if any * Cost of consumables for the projected life of the printer, which include paper, ink and/or toner, maintenance kits, and projected repairs, including trip charges. All printers, including individual and network, unit-owned and grant-funded have to be counted. This does takes a fair amount of time, energy and requires access to the appropriate information. It is also difficult to quantify the cost of support. In addition, you should consider the costs of maintaining many different types of printers, sometimes having multiple drivers for same models (depending on ship date, patches, etc.), maintaining an inventory of various types of ink/toner cartridges and buying consumables at pe
