“An enormous amount of printing and copying is carried out here at the College. When we carried out a print audit in 2003, we discovered that we were printing five million pages per year, and copying more than 11 million pages. Understandably the toner and servicing costs associated with these figures is significant, so we are always looking for ways to reduce our expenditure.
“Before we began using Kyocera we were experiencing significant problems with printer reliability and the cost of cartridges was spiralling to an unacceptable level. An approach from the Kyocera account manager, followed by a successful evaluation and costings compared with equivalent HP products, led us to select Kyocera devices. The two year warranty offered with the printers was also a positive factor in their favour.
“We have now been using Kyocera ECOSYS printers for five years and have always been impressed with the reliability and low cost of printing that the machines offer, especially given the high volumes that they are asked to produce. We have a mix of approximately 80 networked workgroup printers, some of which produce up to 20,000 pages per month, plus four workgroup A4 colour printers, two A3 colour printers and three high volume mono printers. As the site has changed and new buildings have been erected, we have purchased products to suit their environment and usage requirements.
“In 2005 we had just moved into the new buildings on site and we were interested in ways of making sure that we had the latest technology and reducing the total cost of ownership of the printers. We had become aware of the benefits that a managed print service might deliver and asked Kyocera if it would be feasible to set this up with the products that we already had.”
