A Konica Minolta Banner sheet is technically only one piece of paper. Are you saying that it should be single clicked also?
The only reason that this is an issue is the common practice of Print for Pay shops to run all or almost all of their letter jobs two up and then cut them in half. The end result is to produce 10,000 Letter sheets, that is what they will deliver to their customer. But the choose to do them two up on 5,000 11x17 sheet to cut thier cost in half. But the MFD gets the same wear and tear that it would have if they ran 10,000 letter sheets. If they did this on occasion it wouldn't be an issue, but this is the rule and not the exception. That is why i believe it is scamming the servicing dealer as well as the resale market. And it is why Printers hate that we are discussing this practice.
There has always been contention between sales and service on this issue. Sales people say we can't get the P4P deal unless we single click 11x17. When everyone maintained a reasonable click cost the dealers could take the single click 11x17 and still break even. But with the proliferation of the _BS dealers (CBS,RBS, KMBS, etc) all dropping their service cost in some cases BELOW what they tell the dealer they have to charge to make a profit we now have to challenge this practice. After all a good business deal has to be good for BOTH parties, not just one. When you have uber aggressive CPC pricing, then add single click 11x17, and then pile on the practice of doing all or most of their Letter jobs two up, a servicing dealer loses money. If a dealer can't make some profit on a customer why service the equipment? We are not a non profit organization. So you end up with addition by subtraction. If it cost me money to service someones equipment and I choose to no longer provide that service I gain by not loosing money on the deal.
We have a history of providing great service. Great service cost a little more. P4P want to pay for "chop meat" (look it up in the urban dictionary) but they want you to deliver a porterhouse steak. Why should the Printer be the only one allowed to make a profit?
Vince