Did you know …….?

Each employee leaves an average of 600 sheets of printed pages a year unutilized.

Printing does not have to be an excessive expense. To reduce this item, the most important thing is to know what your current printing costs are. For example, many employees print excessively, leaving up to 600 pages a year in the printer tray.
How can this excess printed material be managed efficiently? To begin with, you need to keep an eye on the hidden costs of printing. This can be done by implementing measures that require the user to be next to the equipment when printing, to avoid the accumulation of printed documents.

It is also necessary to be clear in which cases it is not necessary to use color printing or high-quality settings, to apply permissions that limit the amount of printing that can be done, and to use management tools that allow tracking of each employee’s printing.

For example, there is equipment that incorporates the pull printing option, a solution that allows users to pick up their prints when and where they want, identifying themselves at the chosen printing equipment by means of a PIN, password, or card. In this way, documents are released only when their owner is in front of the equipment, to ensure immediate collection. The authentication process can be done by a combination of username and password or, for ease of use, by NFC cards.

Another way to save money is to set up, by default, a cost-saving configuration to limit the volume of color, single-sided and high-resolution prints when they are not needed, or to apply per-user permissions. In this regard, together with the appropriate tool, the administrator is allowed to create and configure different user profiles in which he can determine printing quotas, restrict color printing, and configure the functions that can be accessed by each of the registered users.

But once it has been decided to print a document, it is necessary to do so with maximum savings, minimizing the waste of consumables due to early supply replacements, optimizing the management of cartridge delivery by grouping shipments and establishing an automatic consumables management system for onsite supplies giving one total control over the supplies and their use.
It should not be forgotten that when not managing the supplies at this level there is a 30% cost overrun on printing costs.

Contact Nubeprint if you want to know how to save 30% of your printing costs from day one.

As one can see, all these measures are aimed in one way or another at reducing the environmental impact of waste generation.

Source: IT Users, Nubeprint

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There are powerful arguments in favor of online versus traditional retailing.

The advance of technology in recent years has led to the emergence of a market experience that has brought greater value to the customer and better management for sellers. This new way of doing business has created great competition versus the traditional method: the purchase and sale of services made in person, compared to the e-commerce or electronic commerce based on online sales. Below we present different benefits that the implementation of this method brings:

1.Savings in administration costs: With an e-commerce you avoid paying for the rental of a store and hiring the services of third parties. From the online store the customer has the necessary advice if all the information of the product or service is provided in detail.

2.Prices more adjusted to the customer’s pocket: The previous benefit leads us to something particularly important and that is that, when you save money on administrative costs, you can reduce the cost of products or services, which becomes a great incentive for customer to buy online than by the traditional method.

3.Access to new markets: Deciding to take the products to the digital world through e-commerce allows one to reach national and international markets. Online sales make it easier for people around the world to see the products and decide to purchase. In other words, the target is not limited to one specific region.

4.Less investment in advertising: Having your own e-commerce helps you to reduce the investment budget for advertising thanks to new Digital Marketing trends, such as SEO, SEM, social networks, email marketing, among others.

5.Make a customer analysis: E-commerce allows you to know more about your customers thanks to the implementation of platforms that detail their behavior, interests, tastes, needs and even what they are passionate about.

6.Greater convenience for customers: Online sales allow people to save money on transportation to the store and time when looking for the product they want. This facilitates the decision to make an online purchase, helping to increase store sales.

7.Sales 24/7: Internet never sleeps, therefore, sales do not stop at any time, contrary to what happens when you have a physical store, because it only works at a specific time.
Nubeprint allows you to incorporate the sale of monitoring services in your e-commerce portal, improving your customers’ experience and increasing their loyalty. In this way, when a customer buys a cartridge from you, the monitoring integrated in your e-commerce automatically manages your customer’s next cartridge purchases in your e-commerce portal.

Source: Next_U, Nubeprint

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It is advisable not to turn off the printer even if it is not going to be used.

When we talk about technology, doubts arise about the best method for proper maintenance. In the case of printers, there is a belief that switching them off leads to savings. But as soon as we scratch the surface, we find a very different reality.

It is necessary to differentiate between the two most common printer types: laser and inkjet. We are also going to stick to printers up to five years old, for which manufacturers have optimized power consumption in the well-known “standby” mode.

Regular cleaning and maintenance of a printer is essential to ensure good quality printing.

When the printer is turned on, the self-test process is activated and the printer takes the opportunity to perform maintenance. But turning the printer off and on frequently decreases its useful life as the self-test moves its internal components, causing wear and tear. During maintenance cycles (head cleaning, etc.), the printer uses consumables, sometimes up to 20% of the cartridge contents. Compared to its inkjet equivalent, a laser printer has many more components susceptible to wear and tear: drum, transfer, fuser, waste bottle…

In a printer fleet managed by an MPS service provider, there is often the paradox that an attempt to save energy costs by switching printers off daily leads to higher unproductive consumption of consumables. The user benefits from the energy savings, while the service provider absorbs the entire overrun. From an environmental point of view, the question arises as to whether the energy savings offset the environmental impact of manufacturing 20% more cartridges than strictly necessary, the logistics involved in getting them to the user, the collection of the empties and their processing as electronic waste.

This unproductive consumption is one of the reasons why 60% of printer models in cost-per-copy contracts report a lower than expected yield, since the volume of copies printed per cartridge is significantly lower than the yield approved by the manufacturer.

The manufacturers themselves recommend not to turn off the printer even if we are not going to use it for some time. However, it is good to do so from time to time so that these self-diagnostic cycles can take place (they are there for a reason).

Source: Hard Zone, Nubeprint

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Workers are adapting to the hybrid office model.

A lot of changes have happened in one year, and one of them is the flourishing of remote and work-from-home workforces. Prior to 2020, at least 5% of full-time employees with office jobs worked from home on a regular basis. That figure shot up to more than 80% during the pandemic and is expected to settle into the 20%-30% range as the vaccinated population increases and companies bring their employees back into the office. By some estimates, 70% of the workforce will be telecommuting at least five to eight days per month by 2025.

It is necessary to accept that the office environment will not return to the pre-2020 “normal” mode. The hybrid office is here to stay. Some studies reveal that nearly 60% of workers would not return to a job that did not offer the ability to work from home. In addition, there are other elements that will add to this trend. As the return to normality facilitated by the vaccination of the population progresses, the resulting traffic jams will return to the streets and highways of the big cities. At the same time, there is an increase in traffic restrictions for reasons of environmental sustainability, which has been more marked in Europe, but has been strongly observed by the Biden administration in the United States. There are therefore plenty of arguments for optimizing work by combining on-site and teleworking.

The hybrid workplace encompasses traditional corporate buildings and campuses. It now also encompasses employees’ homes and other remote locations. In fact, some traditional European vacation spots, such as the Canary Islands (Spain), are being touted as ideal locations for teleworkers. Teleworking generates new business opportunities across broad sectors of the economy.

This hybrid work model presents an interesting challenge for resource allocation and reallocation. The teleworker of the coming years requires the necessary resources to be available regardless of the location from which he or she performs his or her work. Corporate and SMB customers have relied on resellers for office-based solutions and are now looking to those same resellers to help them support their employees wherever they work from. In a recent Market Trends Survey webinar, 76% of resellers reported that, over the past year, customers have asked them for printer and copier packages for home-based employees.

Some resellers have addressed this issue, with solutions for managing work-at-home printing equipment that address the needs of their corporate customers’ remote employees (consumables replenishment) and, over time, no doubt more independent resellers will actively market their hybrid office solutions just as they have done with vertical market solutions.
Service models will need to be adapted to provide teleworking solutions, in places that have not traditionally been the reseller space.

(Source: The Imaging Channel, Nubeprint)

Ann Arbor, Michigan,- Nubeprint App, Version 2.0, Available since January

Nubeprint announces the release of Version 2.0 of its successful monitoring app for iPhones and Android phones. Overall, the Nubeprint app has a fresh user interface for a better user experience with easy access to the printer monitoring information. It is also more powerful, supporting almost all printer models that has made Nubeprint the universal solution for MPS.

The Nubeprint app 2.0 is designed to work both as a standalone monitoring tool that one can use to monitor his printers and the cartridges, or  in combination with MPS services contracted with a reseller. Activating monitoring services is done by merely introducing in the cell phone the Nubeprint license number obtained from the dealer.

Another new feature in Nubeprint app 2.0 is that a printer can now be added using the serial number, which makes it very convenient for technicians to verify on-line the status of the printer.

The Nubeprint app synchs when the monitoring data is collected using a Chromebook device. In this case, the cell phone is used as the viewfinder for the monitoring data of printers.

The new Nubeprint app provides a powerful “Call to Action” tool for a Dealer. The Dealer is able to easily send notification alerts directly to the customer via Whatsapp or phone and by doing so develops a more direct and personal communication with the end customer.

About Nubeprint

Nubeprint is a technology company focused on the output devices reliable management. Nubeprint’s offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Madrid, Spain, and its Distribution Channel covers US, Europe, APAC and Central & South America.  Nubeprint´s Yield & Lean Management software is the only true “device agnostic” and reliable MPS software in the Printing Market for remote, automated and proactive management of output devices.

Did you know that …?

Using the end customer’s mobile phone to monitor their printers will reduce a monitoring agent down time/offline by 95% in a cost per page and auto replenishment programs.

In the smallest customers, both companies and professionals and home office market, the use of an app installed on the customer’s smartphone allows one to know in real time the status of the printers or copiers of the customer which then enables one to send consumables and / or invoice them for the pages printed. All this is done without the need to install a data collection agent/software on the client’s computer.

Did you know that …? 

Companies with fewer than 10 employees, the data collection agent on average must be reinstalled to monitor the printers every 3-5 months.

This happens for several reasons: the software was installed on the PC of a person who frequently leaves his office, the client changes PC, or installs a new antivirus and forgets to validate the data collector agent.

In these circumstances, the collection of data through the customer’s mobile phone via an app downloaded directly from PlayStore or AppleStore solves the problem and avoids the cost of having technicians installing the software.

Did you know that …?

An offer sent directly as a notice to the customer’s mobile is 8 times more likely to be considered than a call.

In addition, while the time required to make a call is 5 minutes, the time to identify what the customer needs using a monitoring system and send a direct notification to their mobile does not exceed 15 seconds.

Did you know that …?

The future is mobile and the tendency is to reach users through the devices with which they interact most.

Figures that support these affirmations are the following:

• 50% of the time users spend on digital media is used in mobile applications.
• The average number of applications that users use on a daily basis is 9 and monthly 30 applications.
• 78% of searches for a local business are made from a mobile device which then converts to a purchase.

By 2019, mobile advertising is expected to represent 72% of total spending on digital advertising in the US.

Did you know that …?

A telephone sales call that uses monitoring information gets 70-80% call success rate.

By knowing through monitoring what consumables the customer is going to buy, the sales call is going to be received positively: it offers the right product at the right time. It only remains that your price offer is adequate and the sale will be made.