Interested to know approximately what folks from other areas are paying for click rates on high volume B&W - docutechs, etc. We seem to have a bunch of "heel nibblers" locally that are charging barely enough to even turn on our equipment on B&W copies. Just curious.
We have a Docutech, so we don't run B&W on the color devices unles we have a machine down. How do you justify paying utilities, labor, maintenance costs, etc. and sell at 1.3 cents? I don't get the math on that part?
If you have a 6250 and you print 4 million tabloid sheets a month you pay $15,600.00 at a .0039 click rate. If you sell the output at .013 for a letter size impression your revenue is $104,000.00. Making money isn’t that difficult if you have the the proper equipment and the volume to support it.
We couldn't make any money at $0.013 cents per click. Our service is $0.004 and paper on top of that?
What's the point?
We couldn't make any money at $0.013 cents per click. Our service is $0.004 and paper on top of that?
What's the point?
I remember having a conversation with someone who told me with a straight face that his plan was to undercut all the local printers, and then when he'd grabbed all their business, put his prices up again.
I think maybe the conversation went off track. I think the question being asked by SnappySteve is "what we are paying our vendors for a B & W click". Not what we sell for to our customers. On our Xerox Color Equipment, we pay $0.0149 (not recommended - but, sometimes necessary). On our B & W Equipment (Konica Minolta Pro 1200), we pay $0.0039 - fixed. While these numbers are definitely taken in to account when quoting & estimating (as is paper cost, laser run cost, laser setup & merge cost, etc) they have nothing whatsoever to do with what I'm going to price a job out at (except to make sure that my costs are covered and a reasonable profit is built in)
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