At 11:28 am +1000 8/6/06, Greg Twyford wrote:
Ian Cheong wrote:
We have a couple of Samsung ML2250s at front desk and in each
consulting room.
Our old Kyocera 1750 needs a new drum. It has been fairly reliable
to date for many years. But for the price of a replacement drum, we
can get three Samsung printers which were on special with extra bin
for $300 each.
Ian
What about drum/engine life and toner costs? Lots of GPs still buy
inkjets because they think they are saving money.
My experience with cheaper lasers is that the engine life is as low
as 12,000 pages, or two toner replacements. Then you throw them away
and buy a new one, much sooner, for the same reason you give above.
Greg
For what it's worth, I did a spreadsheet model of our application
(front desk) comparing three cheap printers with one dear printer
over 300,000 pages based on specification life of toner and drums.
(This is one half the manufacturer's rated life of the mechanics of
the cheap printer if it dies at the end of the warranty period.)
Assuming overall productivity cost is wait time for a single page
out, then one only has to save on average 15 percent of waiting time
per page for the cost to be equivalent. If time saved is
significantly greater than that, then the productivity savings for
multiple cheap printers balloon to thousands of dollars.
Anybody who is really interested might like to do a queueing model
for one versus three printers of equivalent speed to compute likely
realistic time savings at a reception desk.
Ian.
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