How Much Is Your Office Printing Costing?

Have you ever considered how much it costs to print and mail a letter from your office?  From the time you press "PRINT", until your letter is posted, you probably incur most of the following expenses:-

• Raw printer cost amortised over the life of a printer, say $1,000 over 100,000 pages
  
• Printer - toner, drum, fuser, waste toner disposal, storage and retrieval of replacement consumables, time exchanging and servicing printer
  
• Paper - letterhead, follow-on, storage, retrieval, replacements, restocking
  
• Envelope - storage, retrieval, replacements, restocking
  
• Postage - stamps, storage, accounting for usage, restocking
  
• Assembly time - get up, retrieve document, verify, fold, put into envelope, seal, affix stamp, put in mailing accumulator, return to workstation
  
• Transport - all accumulated postal items to Postal Service somehow
  

It's easy to see the real cost is heading above $2, and it is certain there are more expenses like power, office furniture and even air-conditioning.  Most of these costs are "hidden" within people's salaries, or general office expenses, but they are all very real.  Imagine the above happening in your company, hundreds of times a day.

Clearly, there has to be a better way . . . . . stay tuned.