The Competition Within
Why send jobs to the in-plant when a desktop printer or hallway copier can take care of them? That’s what many of your customers are thinking—and doing. It’s up to you to change their bad, wasteful habits. Here’s how some managers
Educate Them
What we do is point out to all our departments with short presentations during departmental meetings how expensive the cost per copy is for a desktop versus our cheaper cost per copy with our in-plant equipment.
We also stress the labor issue: that the department can spend their labor pool doing other important tasks and leave the work to us so they gain additional opportunities with time and labor, which should be of benefit to our organization.
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