There is an increasingly strong business case for Managed Print Services (MPS) according to research done by UK research house Loudhouse for Kyocera Mita. Organisations are placing a greater-than-ever focus on cost, and printer management which generally becomes the responsibility of the IT department. As a result the benefits of MPS are becoming increasingly evident to IT managers.
According to the report there is a sense of “green fatigue”, where overall levels of concern about the environment are down. Seems the economic recession has forced environmental issues to take a backseat.
It is quite evident from the report that employers are right to be concerned about their employees’ entrenched printing habits.Office workers are printing as much as ever, with no signs of an imminent change. 40% continue to describe themselves as ‘paper people’ and a similar amount (39%) admit they could do more to reduce their printing. What was that rumour again? “a paperless office?” “ha ha ha ha”
There is a clear disconnect between employees apparent environmental concern and their unwillingness to make changes in their workplace printing behaviour. On this note it was really interesting to see in the report that only 27% of managers consider that enforced rules based printing an effective solution.
Workers are full of good intentions, but seemingly unwilling to regulate their own behaviour and then of course you have the the day to day management and maintenance of printers. It becomes clear that the option of external management, regulation and automation offered by MPS is becoming an increasingly attractive option to businesses.
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