6.8 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Sustain savings through Continuous Improvement
Once the fleet strategy is deployed, the corporation optimises enterprise printing through active monitoring of :
  • printer assets
  • contracts
  • supplies management
  • service level agreements
As with every aspect of managed print services, a tool which collects and stores this device and printing data is necessary to support the intelligent recommendations the Managed Service Provider offers to his customers.
Continuous improvement requires active and continuous attention to print assets. Human behaviour can easily slip back into old printing habits. Active monitoring can alleviate increases in costs arising from this.
This means continuous monitoring and ongoing measuring of the relative costs of printing on each device.
It is a fallacy to rely upon the manufacturers’ benchmarks for each model. Each organisation has different printing behaviours.