TCPglobal - news, views and issues on total cost of printing

Issue #0620/1 - Lexmark has launched a new colour laser printer. It can only be described as extraordinary – costing just £205 but with a Total Cost of Printing that is rising through the roof despite the fact that the machine is specified to a very much lower level than its predecessor.

Issue #0619/1 - Smaller and more keenly priced A3 printer has more in common with the new model from Kyocera Mita than it does with the new model from Hewlett-Packard.

Issue #0619/2 - As the US Dollar remains particularly week against other currencies, Xerox pull a number of supplies prices down.

Although the absence of price reductions on supplies products from Hewlett-Packard in June does not immediately confirm the assumption made that supplies price reductions made by Lexmark in May were currency related, we have now seen price reductions from Xerox, the other US-based printer manufacturer.

Issue #0619/3 - Few organisations consider RoI as an important business driver and even fewer finance professionals believe IT professionals should handle business-oriented functions.

E-skills in the UK, in its latest report on results from surveys of its 1,000-strong panel of UK-based organisations of IT skills, recruitment and training, reveals that only 11% of organisations measure Return on Investment (RoI) in their IT purchasing activities.

Issue #0618/1 - With many personal or small workgroup buyers keen to take advantage of the availability of mono laser multifunction printers, rather than take up space on three or four separate units, the units available are becoming more sophisticated, more versatile and more capable. However, they are also becoming more diverse in price and the features they offer.