It’s rare for
an enterprise to have a coherent plan for managing its printers,
which makes it difficult to predict the overall cost of consumables
without monitoring and accounting tools.
The enterprise
printer market is anything but organized, even though printers
represent a large capital and operating cost for IT organizations.
Printers are purchased in a wide variety of ways—including
centrally, departmentally and individually.
Even if there is
centralized purchasing in place, it’s rare for enterprises to
have coherent plans for managing their printers after they arrive
in their buildings. This makes predicting the overall cost of
consumables difficult unless a company employs monitoring and
accounting tools.