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Welcome to the final part of our three-part series on service contracts. This article covers service contracts on laser printers. Maintenance contracts laser printer are similar to photocopiers service contracts. Most contracts laser printer service is billed for the cost per print. It is essentially the same as the cost per copy. Each time you print a clicks inside meters. In a printer that can get the number of pages or reading counters by printing a configuration page. Then every month or quarter an invoice is generated by multiplying the cost per page than the total impressions made. The cost per page is determined by monthly volume, age of the machine and the environment. Environment plays an important role, because if it is in a dirty environment, may need twice as much service machine in a clean environment.

Service contracts are very similar to an insurance policy. They may or may not save money. The good part is that its costs are fixed, so how much is spent per year instead of the hope that it will not break too much or have a rest part serious or very expensive. There are many ways to pay for a service contract. Depends on how you and your company would like to be billed. Most companies billing service offering monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Total Cost Management
There is an explosion of companies offering services thus tracking all costs associated with its copiers and printers. It is called "Total Cost Management." Most if not all copiers, multifunction printers and can be monitored on your network with the revolutionary software print management. You can track your pages, in whole or copies. You can monitor Low toner warning, error codes, paper jams, and everything related to your machine. This software can help you calculate how much you are paying for full ownership of all of his team. This is very useful when purchasing new equipment. The software will help you calculate all the costs of its equipment, toner, parts, supplies and services.

Coverage
Understanding what's covered and what is not covered, it is very important to know before buying a service contract. If the contract include supplies? Some items of supply toner and maintenance kits. Find out what time the utility is available and seven days a week in which they operate. That holidays are not removed? What is your response time? Most service contracts do not cover abuse or neglect. Thus be careful with the clips and staples, as they can cause a costly repair and probably not covered. Get all this in writing, then there will be no surprise.

What kind of contract?
Choose a comprehensive service contract that covers all around, as parts, labor, maintenance kits and supplies. Or Choose a contract that only covers parts and labor.

Color Laser Printers
Service contracts in laser printers full color are essentially the same, unless you pay for a color or black and white printing. Prices vary, but you will pay around 9-10 times more for color printing in black and white. If you've ever bought a printer toner color that you know the color toner is more expensive.

Conclusion
This concludes our series on service contracts for copiers, fax machines and laser printers. My purpose to write this series was to help shed some light on the purchase of service contracts for companies who have never purchased one or are in the process of buying a contract service. Each service provider of different options, but most of her bill that all maintenance contracts as described in my series.

About the Author:

Bill Tucker has been in the office equipment and supply industry for over 20 years and has several published industry related articles that help the end-user as well as the technician.

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