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When you sign a copier lease, the monthly equipment payment is only part of what you pay. The other part, and often the part that surprises people, is the cost per page, sometimes called the cost per click. Understanding how it works is one of the easiest ways to avoid overpaying, because small differences in…

If you have shopped for office printing, you have probably run into two phrases that sound interchangeable but are not: managed print services and copier leasing. Both put equipment in your office, both spread costs over time, and both promise to make printing less of a headache. They are not the same thing, though, and…

Your copier is making a new noise. Or jamming twice a week. Or showing an error code you have never seen before. The service tech wants $800 for parts and labor. Your office manager wants to know if it is worth fixing. If you bought the copier outright, kept it after a lease ended, or…

Copier Lease Accounting Under ASC 842: What Your Controller Needs to Know Before You Sign Most copier salespeople will not bring this up. But before you sign a new copier lease, your controller or CFO needs five minutes with the contract. The reason is simple. The way that lease is written changes how it shows…

Switching Copier Dealers Mid-Lease: When You Can, When You Can’t, How to Do It Most people calling about this are frustrated. Service is slow. The rep is unresponsive. Toner takes a week to ship. Quotes for new equipment come in higher than they should. Whatever the trigger, the question is the same: can I switch…

5-Year Total Cost of Ownership: Lease vs. Buy vs. Rent for an A3 Color MFP Most copier comparisons stop at the monthly payment. That’s like comparing two cars by looking only at the lease payment and ignoring fuel, insurance, and maintenance. Useful as a starting point. Useless as the whole picture. This post lays out…

Canon imageFORCE: What It Is, Who It’s For, and Why It Matters What You’ll Learn Businesses still rely on printed documents, but the expectations have changed. You want clean output, predictable uptime, and modern workflows that match how people work today. That is the promise of the imageFORCE platform from Canon: a full lineup built…

Electronic Fax Cut fax line costs and reduce paper-based security leaks A practical guide for safer faxing in modern offices Fax is still everywhere in healthcare, legal, construction, and government. But the old way of faxing creates two problems that hit your budget and your security at the same time: Electronic fax fixes both. What…

What AI Will and Will Not Change About the Copier Industry An honest look at the hype, the reality, and what actually matters for businesses managing a print environment There is a version of the AI conversation happening in every industry right now that follows the same pattern. Someone describes a technology that sounds transformative.…

AI Is Making Your Copier Smarter, Not Obsolete What the new generation of intelligent devices actually does, and why it matters for your business Every few years, a new technology comes along and someone announces that the copier is finally dead. The paperless office was supposed to kill it in the 1990s. Email was supposed…