Cost Per Copy / Cost Per Page

The cost per copy / cost per page method of providing post sales support are a well established practise within the digital document solutions industry. Historically businesses would purchase perhaps lower cost desktop printers and possibly a fixed cost maintenance agreement to support the equipment post sales. (Our research shows only about 50% or desktop and workgroup printers are sold with some form of maintenance agreement).

This support model leads to a significantly higher total cost of ownership over the use of multi-functional devices, MFP, photocopiers sold with a cost per page or cost per copy agreement.

When factoring in cartridge costs (normally included in the cost of a cost per page agreement), maintenance costs and in-ability to control waste printing, a typical cost to print a mono page on a desktop or workgroup printer is circa. 1.5 to 5p with colour printing much more at somewhere between 8p to 50p!

The use of digital document solutions hardware, such as MFD, photocopiers etc, significantly reduces the cost of printing a page to generally below 1p per mono and sub 7p per colour – and most importantly the cost, unlike with desktop / workgroup printers, is fixed regardless of toner usage!

See Also: MFP, PHOTOCOPIER, PRINTER, MFD, PRINT STRATEGY