Black-and-white Copiers The Plain Truth

With only four full-time employees and an operating budget just under $300,000, Central Print Services processes more than 27,000 work orders each fiscal year, producing over 20 million impressions. Approximately 18 percent of those impressions—roughly 4 million—come off black-and-white copiers.

The in-plant routes incoming orders requesting 1 to 15 copies to the Xerox (which clocks in at 65 copies per minute), and order sizes from 16 to 50 copies to the Canon (85 cpm). This not only helps distribute the work more evenly within the shop, it keeps monthly click counts within the right range to maximize the contracts with each company.