How well are tracking you printing costs? Irrespective of any plans to increase or decrease overall print volume, printing remains one of the most expensive IT processes. That’s why it’s worthwhile to review existing print infrastructure from time to time. Try our quick quiz to get a grasp of how well your company is doing.
Seven Ways to Reduce Your Printing Costs with ezeep Blue
Tried the quiz and need a bit of inspiration? Here are seven ways how a cloud print management solution can help you reduce your printing costs.
Unify Your Approach for all Devices and Printers
There is always a way to print a document, but it differs from device to device and printer to printer. Printing with a Canon device may be different than with an Epson or HP device. The same holds true for different device types, such as laser or inkjet printers. Neither for users nor IT admins is printing that easy. This is different with ezeep Blue, which uses the same technology utilizing the same user interface for all printers across all devices. A standardized interface means that employee training sessions for employees are shorter, and help-desk queries and maintenance costs are significantly reduced.
Continue to Use Existing Printers
ezeep Blue does not require the purchase of new printers. All previously used printers can simply continue to be used. This not only saves money but also important resources. More tips on sustainable printing can be found here.
Eliminate Print Servers
ezeep Blue works completely without print servers. In their place is the maintenance-free ezeep Hub, which handles on-site communication with the printers in the network. Print job preparation, i.e., rendering, is completely relocated to the cloud. This saves maintenance and running costs which can average almost $/€2000 per print server. The ezeep Hub has a significantly lower energy requirement and has the advantage of having a significantly lower environmental impact.
Go Driverless
Installing different printer drivers on each user’s endpoint is time consuming and no longer necessary. Go driverless by using a cloud-based solution. By eliminating printer drivers, there is also no need to test drivers for compatibility with each other. There is also no need to test drivers on virtual desktops. Spooler crashes caused by incompatible printer driver combinations are also a thing of the past.
Reduce Paper and Toner Consumption
With the Pull Printing feature based on ezeep Blue’s AnyPrinter, you save hundreds of forgotten print jobs per employee per year. Print jobs are triggered directly at the printer. With duplex printing set as default, paper consumption and printing costs per page can be reduced by 50%. Thanks to the Printer Profiles feature, you can easily set default printer settings and assign them to user groups. With resource-saving default printer settings such as black and white or duplex printing, it’s very easy to lower your printing costs.
Simplify Your Printer Queue Setup
With ezeep Blue, multiple printer queues and complex printer mapping can be replaced with a single AnyPrinter by ezeep Blue printer queue, and new printers added in minutes. Since no customization is required on user devices, you can save hours of work. Sharing printers across locations also works with just a few clicks.
Protect Yourself from Costly Security Threats
ezeep Blue improves printer security by ensuring continuous verification and authorization throughout the printing process. For zero-trust environments, this makes ezeep Blue a necessary component as far as printing is concerned. The typical PrintNightmare attack vector of the Windows printing system is bypassed. As ezeep Blue replaces print servers in the cloud, the risk of costly security incidents due to misconfigured cloud servers, which cost an average of $3.86 million per incident, decreases.
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