Print Services

Managing the Silent Bleed of the IT Department

The time of paperless offices has come and gone and yet printers remain.  To be fair, great strides have been made in document management and imaging technologies but the paperless office is something that may take a few years longer to get here than originally thought.  While we wait for of all our documents to be delivered by tablets; businesses should be striving to minimize their overhead in the print and document management technologies.  Print costs still make up over 10% of an average company’s technology costs and can be quite complicated to effectively manage.

Chess has over 3 decades experience in print management and mitigation and can provide a host of cost reduction, print reduction and print management strategies.  By implementing a focused cost per print program businesses can drastically cut their print waste and print cost, seeing an ROI from implemented methodologies in only 6 months.  Chess has developed sophisticated methods and partnered with leaders in print management solutions to provide customers with unparalleled savings and support.  We do this through a focused, three tier approach:

Analysis: The old adage of the first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one definitely applies to Print Management.  Companies need to understand that in order to control their print costs and ultimately reduce cost, an analysis of the existing environment needs to take place.  By analyzing the current print habits and print devices in the business, Chess can work with customers to tailor a solution that will be the right fit for their environment.

Mitigation: Once the business environment is analyzed, Chess can assist the customer with developing a print strategy that makes sense.  Standardization of the device fleet as well as culling devices that are expensive to run is a priority.  Implementing an on-going monthly analysis of the environment and tracking usage will help drive further reduction and savings.  Finally, implementing rule sets that can provide print job redirection, mandatory job duplexing and other reduction rules can have an amazing effect on the bottom line.

Recovery:  The most exciting part of print management is implementing a recovery strategy.  Chess can assist customers in not only mitigating their print jobs but reducing costs by developing department accounting strategies, developing personal accountability and enforcing customer defined print rule sets.

Changing the print mentality of an entire office is not easy but with Chess your business can flourish by reducing costs and pumping up the bottom line.  With print strategies, these low cost solutions deliver incredible results.  Why not contact an account manager today to discuss how Chess can save over 50% of your print costs.  30 day assessments are also currently available so give an account manager a call today.