Cost Control - Xerox ColorQube 8700 Manual

Section 2: Evaluating Color Multifunction Printers

Cost Control

When evaluating the costs of printing, it's important to first think about your
current printing costs.
activities, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the total costs associated with your
printer over its lifetime.
If you print lots of pages and lots of color, the
Xerox ColorQube 8700 can help you realize
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significant savings on up to 70 percent of
the color printing you do every day. You get
exceptional value, with a total cost of ownership
that's hard to beat.
And when you choose the ColorQube 8700,
how you pay for the Solid Ink you use is
completely up to you, with two breakthrough
cost saving options to choose from: the Hybrid
Color Plan or pay as you go.
Hybrid Color Plan
If you like the simplicity of metered billing, take
advantage of high-impact color with the Hybrid
Color Plan. It classifies documents based on the
actual amount of color used – no more paying
full-color prices for low-color documents.
The three tiers of the Hybrid Color Plan:
• Black + Useful Color. Billed at the black-only
rate.
• Everyday Color. Billed at slightly more than
the black-only rate.
• Expressive Color. Billed at the current market
rate for color.
Pay As You Go
If you prefer replenishing your Solid Ink as you
need it with no monthly commitment, consider
paying as you go – and get color for the cost of
black-and-white. Color printing. Black-and-white
price. It's that simple.
Pay As You Go Same Low Price
Color Black-and-white
Once you understand the actual per-page costs of your printing
Typical Office Document Color
Distribution
Office color documents can be classified
by the amount of color used. According
to Xerox research, the following is a
breakdown of color documents in a
typical office environment*:
30%
Useful Color and
Black-and-white
30%
Expressive
Color
Useful
Color
Everyday
Color
Expressive
Color
* This distribution may vary by customer location
and does not include black-only pages.
How the Xerox
8700 Exceeds the Cost Control
Requirement
• Manage, track and report device usage. Use
• Customize your print driver settings for
40%
Everyday
Color
• Secure Print with timed deletion. With
• Control color output. Administrators can
• Reduce unclaimed prints. With the Hold All
• Pick your paper. With Solid Ink, there's no
• Flexible print speeds. Choose the perfect
• User permissions. Restrict access to print
ColorQube
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Standard Accounting tools to control
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print quantities and charge-back options.
Advanced solutions from Xerox Business
Innovation Partners deliver even more helpful
tools for larger office environments.
economy and efficiency. For example,
choose N-up for printing multiple pages on a
single sheet as your default. Adjust settings
for specific applications, such as always
printing emails in black-and-white.
this feature, users are required to enter a
passcode at the device to release the job and
documents not printed within a set time will
be deleted. That means less documents are
unnecessarily printed and left at the device.
limit users' print output to black-and-white
only by applying this setting within the driver.
Jobs Queue feature, jobs are printed only when
the user walks up to the device and releases it.
sacrificing print quality when you choose
inexpensive office paper or recycled media.
combination of speed, savings, and image
quality for any output – from drafts, to
photographs, to marketing material.
features by user, by group, by time of day, and
by application. For example, allow color print
jobs only during certain hours of the day, or
emails always print in black-and-white.
Xerox ColorQube 8700 Evaluator Guide
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