It’s not all that uncommon for an enterprise looking at the possibility of outsourcing its print management needs to hear a prospective vendor say, “We can definitely manage your print environment, but we’ll need to replace all of your existing devices with our devices.”
While a total refresh of the enterprise’s print technology will likely deliver certain advantages when it comes to print management, the challenge with such an “all or nothing” approach is that it is not always a cost-effective or necessary step for an enterprise wanting to achieve better management of its print environment. Often, there is an unrecovered cash investment in existing devices, particularly when the company purchased some of these assets instead of leasing them. Replacing them prematurely would just be bad business.
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