Copiers, copiers, copiers. How boring is this crap. Really its not that bad. I finally had my meeting with Geoge Jacobs from Canon Business Solutions who by the way is one of the best pre and post sales guys I have ever known. He is also a heck of a nice guy to boot. We spent the better part of the morning breaking down each lease and maintenance agreement for each of the Canon units I have in the district. I will tell you again that my goal is to increase the copier compliment so I can offer better service throughout the district as well as eliminating as best I can the excess copier costs that seem to keep increasing year after year. Take this situation and see if you agree with my thought process. I have two copiers at the Middle School. I have the Canon IR105 units in each teacher planning center on either side of the school on the first floor (that's important). Every teacher in the school has to use either of these two copiers and the second floor teachers have to trek downstairs to get copies made. In the past they have been sneaking in to the Vice Principal's office in each wing of the second floor, there are two of these wings, to make copys. The problem is that they are old very low volume copiers that are now in disrepair and getting service for these is next to impossible. In any event the sheer volume of copies is generating about $1,000 in excess copier costs per month for the building. To lease two new Canon 2200 series copiers will actually give me an additional 10,000 copys a month and it will cost me less than the excess costs. So by adding the two copiers I will not only improve the level of service but be able to truly budget for the next fiscal with a much clearer idea on the building's copier costs. There are seven other potential spots in the district that I could use these units in and depending on how the new leases can be worked out I may be able to get this done. The older 550's and the Image Runner 5000 and 6000 may be able to be replaced and upgraded at a lessor amount. I have said it before but the goal of this exercise is to expand the level of service and availability throughout the district while not spending any more money. I hope to get close to this goal and I will keep you guys informed.
I hope to keep this level of posting up for the foreseeable future and since the weather is changing and my outdoor activities are somewhat curtailed I should be able to accomplish this. I have gotten some nice emails from folks over the past few weeks thanking me for keeping up with the nightly updates and I appreciate that very much. Till next post.
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