Lexmark

Businesses are facing their toughest trading conditions in decades. In order to prosper, it is essential that they drive cost and waste out of their business; seize every sales opportunity; and give customers a reason to keep coming back to their store.

Confronted by such challenges, print is not an obvious priority. Yet, it is one that more and more businesses are addressing for solid financial and commercial reasons. Lexmark is already helping 8 out of 10 of the UK's top retailers gain control of printing, and the solutions we have developed for them will also benefit smaller, local concerns.

Do you know how much you spend on print?

Businesses spend on average up to 6% of their revenue on printing and active print management can cut office print costs by up to 30%1. Lexmark's experience suggests that savings of up to 40%2 are achievable, and not just in administrative offices, but also in large corporate organisations. Lexmark's Print Less, Save More strategy is already in place in many household names such as Dixons Stores Group International (DSGi) and has significantly reduced print costs, energy use and paper consumption through better print management and more efficient business processes.

Many of these savings will come from paper reduction initiatives, such as two-sided printing, that can also help a business reduce its CO2 emissions.

In most businesses, print remains an unknown quantity and an invisible cost. According to industry sources, two thirds of enterprises still don't know how much they spend on print.

Our 'Print Less, Save More' approach helps you to cut those costs. Are your devices working for you or against you? How many disparate document devices are floating around your company - including printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines? Do you know how much this may be impairing your profitability? We can help you to install the right devices in the right places for the right printing volumes, at the right time.

Cost saving tips

To help your business make cost savings it is not just about device consolidation but a whole raft of other things as well - rationalising workflow processes and optimising infrastructures through automated processes that really bring cost savings. We can also help you to educate employees about simple and effective ways to reduce the cost of printing, and its impact on the environment by:

• Using duplex printing whenever possible
• Employing the scan to email function to encourage better workflow
• Avoiding printing in colour unless absolutely necessary
• Using duplex printing whenever possible
• Using the print preview function to minimise paper wastage
• Disposing of empty cartridges in Lexmark's recycling containers
• Think before you print. Ask yourself 'do I really need to print this document?'

To help companies Print Less and Save More, Lexmark uses a 4-step process:

1. Optimise your device architecture
2. Improve your daily device management
3. Implement efficient practices
4. Streamline your workflow processes