Lease vs. Buy: What’s Best for You?
CPC also provides a convenient and precise tool to use in evaluating competing pricing proposals from copier vendors. It's like looking at the cost per ounce of coffee in various size cans at the grocery store. If a 12.5 oz. can costs $2.59 and a 34.5 oz. can costs $7.99, how would you decide which is the better buy? By identifying a common unit, in this case ounces, and comparing the costs per unit.
Ray Chambers, CGCM, MBA, has invested over 30 years managing and directing printing plants, copy centers, mail centers and award-winning document management facilities in higher education and government.
Most recently, Chambers served as vice president and chief information officer at Juniata College. Chambers is currently a doctoral candidate studying Higher Education Administration at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). His research interests include outsourcing in higher education and its impact on support services in higher education and managing support services. He also consults (Chambers Management Group) with leaders in both the public and private sectors to help them understand and improve in-plant printing and document services operations.