Know Your Total Cost of Ownership

Step 2. Determine the consumables each printer requires and their prices—including tax and shipping. This, of course, includes toner, but may also include drums, imaging units, waste cartridges, developers, fusers, transfer kits and more. If you have more than 100 devices (and just about everyone does), that task seems daunting. It's not as bad as you might think, though. As noted earlier, many of the devices will be the same make and model, reducing the number of machines you need data for.