SIMPLE Print is complete management of your existing printer fleet including consumables, parts and service support at the cost equivalent or lower than your current consumable expenditure alone.
Benefits of the SIMPLE Print Solution:
LABOR/TIME
- Free up valuable IT staff resources for other productive uses
- Administrators stop ordering, stocking & managing supplies
- Simple billing with management reports and easy cost allocation
- Minimize unexpected downtime, maximize enduser satisfaction
- Minimize purchase order processing
MONEY
- Control and significantly reduce total per-page printing costs
- No hidden fees: program includes everything except paper
- Take advantage of redeployment opportunities to maxmize ROI
- Reduce money typically spent to keep supplies on your shelves, keep it on our shelves = more cash on hand for other projects
- Minimize or remove any supplies that become obsolete and have to be thrown away
Features of the SIMPLE Print Solution:
- New approach to acquiring/managing equipment: Buying Pages
- Does not require any new hardware equipment purchases
- Includes any combination of print consumables, maintenance, on-site break/fix support, printers, MFP's, installation & training
- Software to track print usage
- Behavior modifcaton software
- Dedicated 9x5 on-site technical staff provided, if applicable
- Preventive maintenance to reduce downtime
- One monthly invoice, one supplier, one budget
- Daily management of toner and supplies
Current Trends and the Future of Network Printing
- Document-related expenses cost 5-15% of corporate revenues - Datamation
- Paper use is increasing 6-8% each year, and is expected to grow for the next 20 years - Xplor
- 70% of white-collar time is spent processing paper - DocuTrends
- Print volume surpassed copy volume as early as 1995 - Hewlett-Packard
- 90% of all companies do not know what they are currently spending on internal desktop and network printing - Buyers Laboratory Inc.
- Output fleets are one of the most overlooked and undermanaged assets costing enterprises 1-3% of revenue per year representing a hidden gold mine of savings - Gartner Group
Ameritech's SIMPLE Print Solution
Effectively manage your network printing infrastructure. Take control of your printing & imaging network. Most IT departments have no idea how much they are paying for printing. The lack of a comprehensive printing & output fleet management strategy generates increased costs and decreased productivity.
"Printing is the last un-audited space in most company budgets. It's a huge cost. The ability to combine devices and management services can mean significant savings." Tom Codd - Vice President, Hewlett Packard
Our SIMPLE Print Solution is an integrated family of best of breed hardware, software & services that Ameritech combines with our expertise to reduce costs and increase productivity by improving printing and output management. Using a proven methodology to Assess, Deploy, Manage and Support your printing and imaging infrastructure, Ameritech can significantly increase the return on your IT investment. We will help you identify your printing costs and make your print network more efficient, easier to manage, and more available to your users.
Ameritech's SIMPLE Print Solution offers a new approach to acquiring and managing office equipment -- simply “buying pages”. You pay for pages produced in a true usage model and Ameritech will provide all of the hardware, service and supplies needed for your business. Without requiring any new hardware purchases, Ameritech assumes responsibility for and management of your company's installed base fleet of printers. This outsourced service frees up your IT department to focus on network initiatives, helps customers improve efficiencies, control costs and implement fleet management standards.
As part of this service Ameritech will:
- Conduct a detailed assessment and output fleet inventory
- Create a customized solution to solve asset management issues that may exist
- Offer flexible methods to aquire new equipment
- Optimize your output environment with a management program that includes metering & tracking, technology refresh & redeployment recommendations, end-user process definition and development, training & efficient use of equipment and technology, complete on-site maintenance support services, supplies management, and single monthly billing with custom mangement reports
SIMPLE Print is about simplifying and improving how documents are printed and the resources it takes to do it. The diagram below shows the three stages of adoption that our customers typically go through as we execute on our SIMPLE Print program.
We offer a complimentary SIMPLE Print Evaluation meeting. Just fill out the form below and one of our SIMPLE Print experts will contact you to setup an initial meeting.