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Starting summer 2014, ChemIT arranged for savings of over $1,000 per year to operate printer services offered for free to Chem majors, in Lar's undergraduate lab. And provided second, full-color printer for almost nothing.

Current status, July 2014

Decision by Chemistry department to continue not to account for use by student, much less meter their use. Costs for just non-paper consumables was over $3,700 per year.

Given this arrangement, ChemIT helped reduce costs by over $1,000 per year. And a new printer was bought at 1/9th the expected price, giving the lab two, full color printers.

(1) ChemIT has arranged for saving ~$1,000 per year by moving to Eastern service contract

We are now on Eastern service contract, so our consumables and service are fixed, and less.

  • We were paying about 1.89 cents per page for ink and maintenance kit replacement, on average. So for 280,000 pages (Dec 2012 - July 2014 (~17 months) from the oldest printer (Buckbeak); 40,000 from 2/14 to 7/14), that would be $5,292 ($3,736/yr). Service only if under warranty (new printer). Otherwise, for old printer, pay for repair services and parts out-of-pocket.
  • For the same volume, now we would have paid $3,850 (see below chart).
    • That's a savings of $1,442 over 17 months, which is a savings $1,018/yr.
Type of printing

Eastern's

charges, per page

Page counts

As of 7/24/14

Costs

$

B&W, or little color0.7 cents200,0001,400
More color2.5 cents65,0001,625
Full color5.5 cents15,000825

(2) New Xerox printer bought by ChemIT for less than 1/9th the expected price.

New printer, with warranty, was expected to cost $2,500. During the summer 2014, Michael Hint bought the printer for $256.56!

  • Did this through loyalty rebate ($1,443.91) and trade-in ($224.75) of (old, broken Abruna) printer to Xerox.
  • Did not buy the extra warranty (~$500 more?), since under Eastern service contract. So price of printer was $1,925.22, not the expected $2,500.
  • This gives Lars's undergraduate lab two Xerox color printers. This new printer displaced a B&W HP printer, which went to Dan Lorey.

 


 

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