Money Saving Tip for Large Format Printing
Darren Turner
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This money saving tip is for those smaller architects, electricians, fire suppression businesses, air conditioning installers or any other small business that has a need to print plans in A0 & A1 size…
Who are currently going down to their local printers and paying anything between ￡8.00 and ￡15.00 for every copy. Just, because they haven’t got the available cash flow to pay the ￡2,000+ price of buying or leasing the latest HP, Canon or Epson A0/A1 floor standing (plotter) printing device.
We recently came across a small architects based near Manchester, and this was just the case. Every time they needed a copy of a plan, it was costing them ￡10 a copy, not to mention the time lost going back and forth to the printers. An architects time doesn’t come cheap.
Take our architect, they were spending up to ￡200 a month, just on printing plans, but didn’t have the cash flow to just go out and spend ￡2000+ on a new large format printing device, and didn’t want to commit to a 3 or 5 year financial commitment in the form of a lease.
Now add in the time, it was taking 30 minutes for every trip to the printers, and lets say (on average) they got 5 plans printed at the same time. And in real money terms, each trip was costing ￡20 (as they charged ￡40 an hour). This equates to 4 trips to the printers each month, which is an additional ￡80 in hidden monthly costs.
So, just to show you the scale of the issue here, lets do a simple calculation and work out the annual cost of printing large scale plans for this architect. ￡280 a month x 12 months = ￡3,360.00 each and every year. WOW!
Find out here how much they saved here