The FM Challenge

Organizations with more than 500 employees in the United States spend more than $68 billion a year on production document printing. This is only part of the total document cost though; research studies have found that, on average, for each dollar spent on printing, another $6 is spent on related services such as warehousing and archiving, creative services, management and review, fulfillment and distribution, obsolescence and administrative costs. Add in the printing done on copiers, desktop printers and fax machines and the total average cost of printing and related activities is 6 percent of annual revenue.