The enterprise printer market is anything but organized, even though printers represent a large capital and operating cost for IT organizations. Printers are purchased in a wide variety of ways — including centrally, departmentally and individually. And even if there is some method of centralized purchasing, it is rare for any enterprise to have a coherent plan for its printers after they arrive in their buildings. This makes predicting overall consumables costs difficult to impossible without some form of monitoring and accounting tools.

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