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we just had a meeting about printers. we are going from 26 multifuncton machines to nine. the savings are huge.

Posted by amanda jeans (aka amanda) Feb 15 '22, 13:07

we have printed (as a unit of 600ish people) less than 1000 pages each month at multifunction machines since february 2020.

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usually when I engage in this type of consolidation, it is soon followed by a bunch of - oblique Feb 15, 13:11 13
- i share a multifunction machine with one other person. i can wheel there in 2 seconds on my chair. -- nm - Andie Feb 15, 13:28 1
  - Great calf workout. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 15, 13:33
- Heh, I have my own but because of confidentiality not laziness. -- nm - spamlet Feb 15, 13:24 4
  - we have doc release so no confidentiality issues. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 15, 13:27 2
    - I'd be okay with that but we don't. - spamlet Feb 15, 13:32 1
      - it's quite costly actually. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 15, 13:37
  - Thats one of the usual explanations. Everybody in healthcare deals with PHI/PCI data, so yeah used a lot to try to justify. -- nm* - budice Feb 15, 13:26
- our execs live between two suites. one is keeping a machine. the other houses execs who are like - amanda jeans Feb 15, 13:18 1
  - Yes, Execs loving Apple gear while the org is using all Microsoft/Android products -- nm* - budice Feb 15, 13:19
- been there too. What was worse at my old place is they thought Color Inkjet was the way to go for Execs. What a mess and service overhead with the ink cartridges -- nm* - budice Feb 15, 13:12 3
  - ooof. Yeah, at least we pretty much stick to standard laserjets with a pretty common model when anyone asks. -- nm - oblique Feb 15, 13:14 2
    - Vendor Selection process is how I met Jerry West -- nm - budice Feb 15, 13:16 1
      - End Result: Canon swooped in with a helluva deal on Hi-Speed Color Laser Multi-Function Devices. We just also provided a good customer reference -- nm* - budice Feb 15, 13:21
26 does seem like a lot. Ive been a part of the printer consolidation and Multi-Function Vendor Selection process before -- nm* - budice Feb 15, 13:09 3
- Before consolidation, my old workplace had 300 printers for 600 people. It was like a status symbol to have a printer at your desk -- nm - budice Feb 15, 13:12 2
  - our poor landfills -- nm - decline Feb 15, 13:13
  - *nods* -- nm - oblique Feb 15, 13:12
see znu? it works! -- nm - decline Feb 15, 13:08 2
- Heh. - znufrii Feb 15, 13:12
- my voice is my passport. verify me. -- nm - oblique Feb 15, 13:10

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