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The first thing you need to do is to determine what KIND of equipment you need and think about your budget. Your budget should reflect your POTENTIAL VOLUME. This is one of the most critical areas and probably the hardest to get right. In general terms the lower your volumes the less you should spend on equipment, although this generally means higher running costs. If your volumes are high then you should spend more on equipment which generally implies lower running costs.
Our LIBRARY of DOWNLOADABLE Information will help you draw up your short list. You will find brochures, detailed equipment and operational costs together with additional supporting information. In our experience equipment falls in to one of the following three categories but the same machine may fall in to two categories, depending upon its configuration.
Office Colour
Medium Production
High Production Mono
High Production Colour
Wide Format Mono
Wide Format Colour
Once you have drawn up a short list you should insist that any prospective supplier provides you with a written document detailing the machine’s capabilities, maximum paper weight etc., this will ensure you know exactly what you will be getting and avoids any potential problems down the line. We have witnessed many occasions when the equipment buyer has ended up with an inappropriate machine not meeting their core requirements resulting in highly unproductive and expensive disputes with their supplier. It seems obvious but do your homework thoroughly.
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