Know Your Total Cost of Ownership

Fortunately, there is a third option: you can perform the audit yourself. "Now, wait a minute, Griffin," you might say. "We've got over 200 (500? 1,000?) devices we'd need to evaluate, and I don't have the time or the staff to do all that. And how do we audit a bunch of printers anyway?"

I won't lie: auditing a fleet of printers and MFPs properly is more than a bit of work—but not as much as you might think. Odds are your fleet of many, many printers consists of a much more limited number of models, and once you've calculated the total cost of ownership for one model you can apply that to every example of that model you own.