Printing costs, and a surprising find

[Mike Schwartz]

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> 
> Thanks for the link. $21,000 for one school? I hope this goes viral.
> 
> Ryan

     The sys-op group I belong to in Green Bay has a lot of school admins,
and they tell me that $21,000 for consumables for a single high-school isn't
unusual.  They just cringe when they see a teacher printing 100 booklets on
an inkjet or desktop laser printer, when the teacher could have easily sent
the job to a duplexing copy machine down the hall, at half the paper and
toner cost...  

filePro tie in:

     I still have customers who insist on printing lots of long reports on
paper, then filing them away.  They have garages full of old reports that
hardly anybody ever looks at and they still send paper reports (instead of
PDF's) to all their customers.  They still have several dot-matrix printers
cranking away for most of the day printing on pin-feed paper.  They don't
like lasers because of the additional toner cost and the fact that most
laser printers print single-sheets, not continuous paper.

    I finally convinced one of my insurance company customers in Chicago to
let me use their new filePro 5.7.03 to let me create PDF invoices for them
"on-the-fly".  Right now they print everything, then pay a college kid to
scan everything into their PDF filing system.  They are still not worried
about paper cost, though.  They are doing it because I told them they could
probably get their invoices paid more quickly if I email PDF invoices
directly to the customers from filePro, instead of snail-mailing the
invoices.

Mike Schwartz