Audit your organization’s printers to determine how much is being spent to print documents

By Richard Griffin

Step 3. Determine the yield and cost per sheet of the consumables (but skip this if you have a click rate plan that includes consumables). How many sheets can you print before a consumable must be replaced? Toner life depends upon the coverage of the documents being printed. (See the sidebar about toner yields and why we use the 5 percent standard that manufacturers specify.)