Hi Tom, thanks for the fair warning. Our printer is currently included in all memberships, but we're toying with the idea of charging after a certain number of pages. Hoping this idea would encourage our members to take huge print jobs to Fed-Ex Kinkos down the street.
We're hosting a town-hall meeting Wednesday to hear more feedback from the community on this topic along with others. I appreciate your feedback in our quest for a new printer! Mychael *Mychael TaylorCommunity Manager | CoWork Jax* w *coworkjax.com <http://coworkjax.com/>* f *facebook.com/coworkjax <http://facebook.com/coworkjax>* t *@coworkjax <http://twitter.com/coworkjax>p 904.586.8678 x 706 office* On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Tom Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there Mychael. Following on from the previous answer, we did the > lease/recon thing too- and just a quick heads up/warning. While the > machine we've got is pretty awesome (it does stuff like high speed scanning > to evernote, which everyone loves), we've also struggled with Mac > compatibility and the supplying printer company can't do much about it > until the manufacturer sorts it. Turns out 90 of our 100 members use a Mac > (who's have thought it, in a creative workspace, d'oh!) and I seem to spend > my life trying to find workarounds. > > One other thing (about printing in general, I appreciate you're an > established business so this probably won't apply to you personally, just a > general tip)- we thought for charging for printing we needed to decide > between lo-tech (having the printer behind reception and taking cash), > higher tech but more time sapping for my team (having user accounts on the > machine and recharging once a month onto members' bills), or high-tech > (billing to account at point of use). > > Turns out the amount we spend on printing, even with a busy place like > ours, is pretty minimal, so right now we're think about just offering it > free as part of a membership. £100/month lost in printing revenue, and the > same amount saved on my staff time when they could be somewhere else doing > something awesome with the community rather than crunching rebill > numbers..... > > Tom > > > On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:19:01 UTC+1, Mychael Taylor wrote: >> >> *Hey! * >> >> We're currently looking for a new printer for our space. Does anyone have >> any suggestions for printers *under $500* or have experience in renting >> a printer for your coworking space? (How expensive is it to replace color >> cartridges/ how many pages per cartridge) >> >> The one CoWork Jax has (or had since it's broken now) -> Canon Lasers >> Color imageCLASS MF8380Cdw >> http://www.amazon.com/Canon-imageCLASS-MF8380Cdw-Wireless- >> 5120B001AA/dp/B005L39H9G/ >> >> We're now looking into...Brother MFC-9970CDW... because of our needs for >> scanning, color printing (obviously), and copying >> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GXAY9E/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_4lJepb1FE8CNH >> >> Would love to hear feedback from the community! >> >> Thanks in advance! :) >> >> *Mychael* >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/ggBXHq51IbA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
