Benefits of Managed Print Services

Managed Print Services can reduce the number of devices in your fleetManaged Print Services offer a host of important benefits to businesses of all sizes, whether a mid-size office or a professional printing firm. From economic and environmental improvements to increased staff morale the benefits really do outweight the initial costs - if you feel your business is overspending on its print functionality or that you're just not getting the returns you want, Managed Print Services may be able to help.

MPS involves mananging hardcopy device fleets in a unified and strategic way. There are three main processes involved in migrating to MPS:

• Control: Operations focus on taking control of the fleet and ensuring the tools necessary to manage the devices successfully have been deployed
• Optimisation: The focus now turns to ensuring devices and resources are deployed in the optimal manner and that efficiency is as high as possible
• Enhancement: Following optimisation, the emphasis moves to enhancing the fleet by using document management, workflow and other practices to improve basic business processes

This process offers a number of benefits to businesses undergoing the migration:

• More time for business growth: Having print infrastructure planned out by a specialist company means you have more time with which to pursue mission-critical goals. Ordering consumables is automated and problems can be fixed far more easily than if you had to personally send for an engineer
• Improved environmental profile: By reducing the number of devices in use and optimising the device-to-employee ratio your business can cut down on its energy usage. This is especially important as the government expects more of businesses when it comes to carbon output reduction.
• Improved staff morale: Fewer calls to the help desk, better resource efficiency and faster maintenance times give staff the print functionality they deserve, saving them from frustration.
• Leverage new technologies: New resources and devices are able to be deployed more effectively as the fleet is constantly monitored to see where improvements can be made.

For more information on the benefits of Managed Print Services please give First Choice Business Systems a call on 0800 072 3747. They're specialists in deploying Xerox printer products in market-leading MPS installations and offering free consultations for all businesses.