Printing costs can consume up to three percent of a company’s annual revenue according to Gartner. To determine the specific costs for your own organization, you can install Print Manager Plus® software free on your print server or print servers and let it run for a few weeks to a month. You can easily see for yourself what your own costs are very specifically right down to each user, printer and for the entire enterprise.



With this information neatly and concisely presented in the form of various kinds of reports, you can then see exactly what you need to do in order to reduce these costs. Many organizations will find they can reduce these costs by up to 75%. This is a substantial savings that can immediately be put back into your budget. The ease of use and simplicity of the software make such recovery of budget monies a very real financial gain to your operation in a very short period of time.

Alternatively, one can save some of these printing costs by hiring outside consulting services under contract with outside firms like HP for substantial fees. In this manner, companies can expect to save between 13 to 40 percent according to IDC. HP reported that for a company worth nearly $400 million, this means a savings of between $244,000 and $750,000 over five years.

IDC reports savings will average 23 percent, peaking at 40 percent for reduced IT support costs. Repair bills fall by 20 percent and cost of consumables by 25 percent. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young achieved a 33 percent drop in TCO in imaging and printing over three years with HP, reducing down time and the number of Help Desk calls along the way.

HP had reported that the average company’s Total Cost of Ownership for IT was divided like this: consumables such as ink, paper and toner contribute 17 percent towards printing costs with all their software accounting for a further 15 percent.

Print Manager Plus is a pure software solution (requiring no hardware add-ons) that is integrated with Windows and Active Directory and which can save up to 75 PERCENT of the cost of printing.

Up until the advent of Print Manager Plus with its newest features for every kind of business or academic environment, with its support of ALL printer brands, there has been no single software tool to control and reduce these printing costs with no additional training required and for only the cost of the software (a fraction of the cost of outside consultancy services).

For example the average high schools saves enough money in two and a half weeks to pay for the software forever plus all it support and upgrade services for a year.

Print Manager Plus comes with a Live Electronic Update service to enable seamlessly updating or upgrading the software with the latest updates/upgrades at the click of a button in a matter of seconds.

Print Manager Plus allows you to audit, control, monitor and track users, user groups, accounts, and printer usage over an Active Directory or Workgroup.

The free, fully functional trial version is available for any organization for one month. This gives the IT staff enough time to not only test it, but to gain enough savings in cost reduction to in many cases pay for the software license.

Anyone can download it in a matter of minutes and install it on their print server and begin accounting for and reducing costs across the enterprise at once. To download this trial version, go to: http://www.softwareshelf.com

Tech support staff are available without waiting by phoning or emailing and their help is provided in 13 languages from the US or UK offices. Contact data is at either http://www.softwareshelf.com or in EMEA at http://www.softwareshelf.co.uk