You might be surprised to find out that you are probably already paying 2 to 3 times your toner cost per page and don’t even know it.  Do you know what percentage of page coverage is used to calculate the published page yield of a toner cartridge – the answer is 5%.  

Have you ever wondered why you never get the number of pages that the toner cartridge says you should?    When you buy a toner cartridge and it says that the you will get 12,000 pages from it, this is  based on 5% toner coverage.   

If you are using 10% coverage, you will get half the number pages out of the same toner cartridge.  A toner cartridge rated at a yield of 12,000 pages now becomes a 6,000 page yield toner cartridge.   Essentially doubling your toner cost per page (CPP).

Wondering what 5% toner coverage looks like? Imagine taking a black marker and coloring in the corner of a letter-size piece of paper representing what you believe to be just 5% of the total area. It isn’t much, is it?

On the low side, most businesses tend to print 10% – 15% coverage on black and white documents and 15% – 30% coverage when printing in color. Of course, printing just 10% coverage in black and white will double your costs and color becomes exponentially more expensive because you’re using toner from four different toner cartridges to produce colored text or an image.

Let's calculate the cost per page of doing it on your own and buying toner cartridges versus getting on a managed print service program.

In this example, I am going to show what your cost per page (CPP) is for a genuine HP CF237X toner cartridge which is used of the many popular HP LaserJet M6xx series monochrome printers.  The cost for the genuine cartridge is $348.99 for a 25,000 page cartridge based on a 5% yield.   That comes out to .014 CPP.

Below is the breakdown of the CPPs that you will get out of a Genuine HP237X toner cartridge based on the yield percentage of toner that you are putting down on paper.  I also give you the breakdown of the CPP if you purchased compatible cartridges that you can you can find on Amazon.com for around $225.00, 

The TotalPrint USA Managed Print Service program would cost .012 page for for this same Genuine HP Toner Cartridge.  For .012 per page, you also get free onsite service, parts, labor, helpdesk support, toner and more.  Plus, toner will automatically be shipped to you before you run out at no extra charge. 

Everything, except paper, is included in the TotalPrint USA Managed Print Services Program. 

When you do the math, it is a no brainer that you should be on a managed print program instead of buying toner cartridges. 

The immediate financial benefits that a fixed cost-per-page model provides without asking end-users to change their printing behaviors are:

• Immediate Cost Savings
• Expense Control
• Budget Predictability
• No Up-Front Costs
• Simple Month to Month agreement.  Cancel at any time.

For more information on how TotalPrint USA can save you money on your printing and copy costs, contact us today.  Visit us at www.totalprintusa.com.