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 color | 0.7 cents | 200,000 | 1,400 |
| More color | 2.5 cents | 65,000 | 1,625 |
| Full color | 5.5 cents | 15,000 | 825 |
(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.
