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Thanks largely to Michael Hint, starting summer 2014, ChemIT produced on-going savings of $1,850 per year (a 40% savings on prices ChemIT involved in) to provide full-color printer services, for free, to Chem majors, in LarLars' s undergraduate (Mac) lab. This included procuring a new, second, full-color printer for almost nothing. |
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- Enrolled in a service contract with Eastern.
- This service provides us cheaper Xerox-branded consumables.
- This included maintenance services for the printers, even if off-warranty.
- Bought a new, second color printer for a ninth of it's its expected cost.
Result
Effected recurring savings of almost $2,000 per year.
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- 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 for 3 years), 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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