Technology Insights Blog: Copiers & Printers

When it comes to toner, you have choices: do you purchase the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) toner, or go with a cheaper, but allegedly compatible toner? Depending on the age of your printing equipment, you also might have remanufactured cartridges available. But when it c…

90% of companies fail to track their printing costs, and that’s a big miss. Many businesses could reduce their printing expenditures by 10–30% if only they knew where their money was really going.

According to Quorica’s 2022 Global Print Security Landscape Report, 68% of IT decision-makers from small to midsize businesses reported that they experienced data losses due to unsecure printing practices. To make matters worse, each breach cost an average of $780,857 (£631,915),…

Your printer has one job — to print. It can be frustrating when it won’t do this job, especially when you’re up against the clock. But when your printer doesn’t faithfully produce what you see on your screen, file format issues or applications are often to blame, not the printer …

Choosing a new production printer can be stressful. Printing manufacturers don’t always make it easy to pick a clear winner, and printing technology has evolved significantly in the past five years.

You know the old saying — when everyone is in charge of something, no one is. Printing environments are notoriously frustrating and chaotic, but that’s because they’re not given the same level of care and consideration that other critical business systems and tools are given. Ide…

In our never-ending effort to keep technology simple, secure, and better, we've put together a mashup of our top-viewed print blogs. You'll find additional articles (we'll call them the honorable mentions) linked at the bottom. Enjoy!

Okay, maybe there’s some IT person out there who really loves the grind of constant updates, maintenance, and stress of dealing with print drivers. But if there is, we haven’t met them.

Remote work — love it or hate it, it probably saved your business quite a bit of money in print costs. And if your workers have returned to the office, they’ve probably brought their old, wasteful print habits back with them.

Unmanaged print costs typically account for 1 – 3% of an organization’s total revenue, and that’s not considering the dramatic price increases we’ve seen in ink, toner, and paper recently. If you’re looking to reduce your print costs, there are smart ways to dramatically reduce y…