Why All The To Do About Printed Page Coverage

Posted by Tom Callinan on Sunday, May 17, 2009

For year’s copier vendors have been selling pages on a cost per page (CPP) basis without regard to an end user company’s page coverage. In so doing they have been able to achieve nice profit margins that allow them to provide quality service, an easy to understand pricing model, fund growth and provide a fair return to the stakeholders.

With copier unit placements dropping rapidly the traditional copier dealers are now moving into the printer world, bringing with them their CPP model. But many dealers are suddenly talking about page coverage area.

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Print Managed Services firms told to target IT managers' headaches

Posted by Tom Callinan on Saturday, May 9, 2009

Service providers that position themselves as a consultative business focused on relieving IT management pain-points stand to reap benefits.

Follow the link below:


http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=53057&cid=6

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First HP Now Xerox: Is Tiered Color Pricing The Future of Color CPP?

Posted by Tom Callinan on Saturday, May 9, 2009

HP started tiered pricing with their Edgeline product. With low enough color density your expense per color page could be as low as that of a black print. If the color increased you fell into the accent color range or professional color range, and were charged accordingly.

The tiered approach had a lot of fans on both sides of the transaction. The vendor selling the CPP had great comfort that they were being fairly compensated for the quantity of supplies they would be providing.

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