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Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Print Management Service From Maine













Four Steps to Optimise your Printing

Managed Print Service by Maine PLC ensures that you get the best solution for your office printing demands. With our flexible approach to managed print we will provide a bespoke solution which will exceed any print management requirements your business has. These 4 easy steps allow us to truly create a solution specific to your needs, whilst ensuring you are confident and clear about the print structure we are recommending.

Assess

On initial contact we will arrange to come to your premises and discuss what you wish to achieve from your print environment. We will then assess your current set up by performing a network and walk through audit. This will give us a full breakdown of every device (printing, scanning, copying and faxing) in your business and each devices usage over a period of time.

Propose

Based on the data collected and the print / document requirements you have, we will put together a structured print management proposal which will streamline your business printing and enhance your overall document management for the business, We will present back to you exactly how much you are currently paying to run your print environment and will also provide data relating to the hidden costs associated with your current set up. The proposal will clearly demonstrate the cost savings we can offer you, and will also provide a bespoke solution to perfectly cater for each departments print / scan / copy/ fax requirements. The proposal will be flexible and upgradeable, you may wish to add or remove printers as departments change, you may need network scanning or secure printing, whatever your need a Managed Print will have the right solution. The most important thing is it will be transparent, you will always know your exact print costs from day one.

Implement

On your go ahead we will begin the transformation of your print environment. Our sympathetic approach to upgrading print structures will mean the minimum of disruption to your business. A step by step implementation program will be agreed and managed throughout. Each department will be given comprehensive training on the products relevant to them and will be provided contact numbers for support , supplies etc. Disposal of redundant equipment will be arranged by us (for free) and performed in an environmentally friendly manner in line with our own eco obligations.

Manage

We will keep you regularly informed about your print usage and any other relevant document management statistics, this can be quarterly, monthly or as often as you like. The aim of this is to keep you aware of your ongoing print costs, but also to identify other areas within your document management environment which are evolving and could benefit from further change, We often move / adjust products within a managed print environment to add further streamlining and benefits to the customers workflow. Through our continued assessment and ongoing recommendations you will be assured of the best printing and document management process available.

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Managed Print Services








Managed Print: Take control of your in-house printing...

Managed Print is rapidly becoming the norm for businesses who wish to fully understand their office print environment. Both private and public sector are embracing managed print as the preferred method of controlling print costs and streamlining their printing.

BENEFITS OF MANAGED PRINT:

bullet Reduced Print Costs (often up to 60%)

bullet Fixed Print Costs - ideal for budgeting

bullet Improved Workflow

bullet Standardised print equipment (brings numerous benefits)

bullet Solutions tailor made to your specific needs

bullet Fully auditable departmental printing

bullet Complete control of your print environment

To discuss the numerous benefits of managed print to your business click here

HOW DOES MANAGED PRINT WORK?

Managed print puts the right devices just where you need them and fixes the running cost and servicing cost of them.

At Maine we have created an easy 4 stage process to ensure you get the managed print solution you need. Our flexible approach to managed print will guarantee you the best solution for your print requirements. Click here for further information






















Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Support By Maine PLC


Service covers the following

  • All Parts and Labour Toner (genuine parts only)
  • Remote diagnostics & proactive e-maintenance monitoring
  • Over 90% first time fix rate
  • Average response times under 4 hours (under 2 hours within central London, central Birmingham & central Manchester)
  • Regular preventative maintenance
  • Loan replacement equipment

What this means for you

  • Local service centres, offering you "on your doorstep" support and consistent faces for continuity of care
  • Industry leading response times and first time fix rates
  • Motivated and knowledgeable people
  • Instant access to spare parts
  • Support calls answered instantly — less time on the phone when booking service calls

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Managed Print Services and You

In today's business climate, reducing and controlling costs is more important than ever. Strategies to increase sales revenue and streamline business processes are obvious areas to address, but many organizations fail to look at the cost of managing documents, which can present significant opportunities for savings - as much as 30% according to industry analysts.

Companies that embrace a Managed Print Services (MPS) approach and implement a comprehensive output management strategy can realize substantial benefits such as:

  • Decreased document-related expenses
  • Controlled expenditures
  • Increased employee productivity
  • Eliminated or significantly reduced waste
  • Continuous improvement with document lifecycles
  • Greener corporate citizen status

However, there is a lot of confusion in the marketplace about the true definition of

Managed Print Services (MPS). To put it simply, MPS is the effective governance of your output environment. This involves the monitoring, controlling and improvement of your output technology as well as processes related to document management.

Many companies don't have the resources or the expertise to achieve the full potential of MPS, and look to form partnerships with firms like Maine that can deliver this service for them. By partnering with Maine, you gain access to the talent, resources and expertise to extend and enhance your current capabilities.

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10 tips to cut office operating costs with Maine PLC



1. Rationalise your office automation

There is no longer a need to buy and run individual printers, photocopiers, scanners and faxes – a multifunctional device can do it all for you. By consolidating your office equipment with less devices you’ll reduce electricity, floor space requirements and ultimately reduce your bottom line costs.

Maine can help you through the consolidation process with a Print audit. It’s simple. With no obligation we’ll undertake a comprehensive print cost analysis of all the devices in your printing fleet, including copiers, printers, multifunctional devices, faxes, and inkjets. It only takes a few hours and includes a:

  • Site survey
  • Software-based printing cost analysis
  • Executive summary

You’ll then be able to see where your money is going, and can identify solutions towards cutting your office costs and reducing your carbon footprint.

2. Shrink energy bills with Power Save Mode

Make it a mandatory policy in your office to have every office printer on power save mode when it sits idle.

Quick Start-up (QSU) Technology on printers and multifunction devices offers a quick recovery from energy-saving and auto-off modes, allowing users to output and pick up prints whenever they need to without delays.

3. Review documents on-line to save paper

Start promoting the reviewing of documents on-line, using the ‘Track Changes’ tool in Microsoft Word, or circulating PDFs for approval rather than printed copies.

4. Cut costs by printing on both sides

It’s simple but effective: set ‘duplex’ as your default preference for all your office printers and copiers. By printing on both sides of a sheet you’ll reduce paper usage by as much as 50%.

Multi-copy and print can cut your paper consumption down even further by printing two pages on the same side, therefore letting you print four pages onto one piece of paper.

5. Reduce paper use by preventing uncollected printouts

Everyone gets annoyed when they see uncollected and forgotten printouts on the office printer and MFP. One way to prevent this is by using print management software such as follow me to impose print rules so that when for instance a document is sent to print, it is stored on the printer and will not be printed until it is ‘unlocked’ by a user at the device. Punch in a user code, or make your staff ultra efficient by enabling them to release jobs with a simple proxy card swipe. This will not only reduce paper waste, but it will also increase your organisation’s security as well.

6. Digitally archive your documents

By using Laserfiche technology you can eliminate the need of accessing hard copy documents. Instead of reproducing and storing hard copies of documents, you scan them and use soft copies:

  • Alleviate the need to print and store paper documents, reducing paper use.
  • Save on valuable office and storage space by eliminating archived hard copies.
  • Make your employees more efficient by eliminating time spent searching through filing cabinets.

7. Manage your colour usage

By controlling what documents print in colour you can drastically reduce the cost of colour printing. application is embedded directly onto your printing device or laser printer and empowers how and when colour printing is used in your office.

  • Control colour printing by application: For example, force emails to print in black and white but allow Powerpoint slides to colour print.
  • Control colour printing by user: You can specify which users can only print in black & white or prevent them from using the device at all.

*costs depend on coverage and type of document printed.

8. Cut down on pre-printed documents

Eradicate or reduce the cost of pre-printed stationary with Ricoh’s IntelliForm solution. IntelliForm can print office stationary and business forms straight from the device, eliminating the need to bulk print costly stationary and business forms which can date quickly. Plus it’s an embedded application that’s located directly on your Printer/multifunction device, so it’s affordable with a low return on investment.

9. Make your office automation more accountable

All Ricoh devices have page counters so print volumes can be tracked. Also, all Ricoh colour printers show colour pages separate from B&W, so you can see exactly where your money is going.

Ricoh’s @Remote solution can eliminate the need for manual metre reading. It provides usage reporting for your device fleet accessibly remotely from a secure website using a web browser, allowing you to match the best device location to workload and identify cost reductions.

10. Keep your clients happy

During tough financial times it’s more important than ever to keep communicating your message to clients. It’s not about cutting back on your marketing efforts, but making it more proficient. Having a cost-effective and well-integrated direct mail system is therefore more critical than ever. DataWorks is a software solution that will make your client communications more decisive, yet more affordable. You can use DataWorks to create personalised direct mail, business forms and transactional documents like invoices and acc

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Production Printers from Maine PLC



Demanding deadlines, high volumes and complex print streams need powerful, reliable production engines and management tools.

We have been supplying digital production printers to corporate print centres and commercial printers for over 20 years. As an independent consultative organisation that is not tied to one specific manufacturer, we pride ourselves on being able to analyse and assess print workflows and make recommendations based on best of breed software and hardware solutions for digital production print requirements.

Our consultancy service covers the following: printing solution strategies, outsourced printing, data streams, network connectivity, software solutions, design, configuration, implementation, maintenance and disaster recovery, load balancing, job ticketing, variable data printing, forms printing, electronic web submission, estimating and cost management and billing tools.

With our award winning support, advice & production offerings, no deadline will ever stop you getting home early again.

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Photocopiers From Maine PLC


Key Facts About Maine Businesss Systems









Key Facts About Maine PLC





  • There are six Maine offices in our network, including two service centres in London and our regional service centres in Birmingham and Manchester
  • We are a completely independent provider in the marketplace.
  • We continually seek to innovate — for example we were first to offer 24/7 online service support, remote diagnostics & proactive e-maintenance
  • We have installed or manage over 10,000 machines in the UK
  • Faults are a fact of life; however our team of service engineers maintains 97% uptime across our entire machine base
  • We listen to our customers. One reason why our national call centre is manned by our trained in-house team — guaranteeing you will always speak to us (not a recording or an outsourced service)
  • Our engineers respond within just 4 hours (from when your call is logged, not from when our operator calls you back - there is a difference!)
  • We take quality management very seriously (ISO 9001)
  • We are environmentally responsible, continually finding new ways to reduce the environmental impact of our own and our customers' operations (ISO 14001)


HEAD OFFICE

Custom House
Gloucester Road
Croydon

08709 088 099

Laser Printers From Maine PLC


Hardware Solutions From Maine PLC


Scanners From Maine Business Systems















Maine > Hardware Solutions > Scanners

Scanners

To make the most of today’s powerful business applications an organisation needs to convert its paper-based information from hard copy to digital files.

Our broad range of high speed, high performance document scanners combine reliable high quality image input with easy operation and maintenance. They make information management more efficient and less time-consuming, empowering your organisation to save money, time and space through the digital distribution, storage and access of information.

Before we recommend products or solutions for your business, our sales consultants will ask plenty of questions. They will want to fully understand your situation - your needs now, and your plans for the future.

Whether you are after service, support or advice on a particular digital scanner or a complete review of your firm’s printing and imaging strategy, we have a friendly, professional team ready to help.

All our advice is free and without obligation


Document Security Solutions From Maine


Confidentiality:

  • Ensuring that business critical information in physical and digital format is not exposed or disclosed to unauthorized individuals or systems. (e.g. Secure information transfer over the network when a document is printed or scanned)
  • Enable secure data storage so that no confidential documents can be recovered from a multifunctional printer’s hard disk drive.


Integrity:

  • Meaning that information remains true to the original version thanks to the control of changes or deletions by prior authorisation. In many industries, ensuring the integrity of documents is a legal requirement.
  • By applying digital signatures to scanned documents it can be ensured that the document cannot be changed and is displayed exactly the same way it had been scanned.

Availability:

  • We ensure that the information our customers need is available where and when required, and in the right form.
  • Through encryption of PDF documents, the information contained can only be seen by authorised personnel.
  • Redundancy of important systems can ensure that important information is constantly available.







Print Audits by Maine PLC


Managed Print Solutions From Maine PLC


Maine plc Offer Nationwide Copier Service














Peace of mind

You can relax. When choosing Maine plc you are placing your care in the hands of one of the UK's most experienced service teams. We are a national account support agent for Ricoh UK & HP Service Partners, and arguably the most experienced eCopy and managed print support team in the United Kingdom.



Service Covers the following

Maine > Support

What this means for you

  • Local service centres, offering you "on your doorstep" support and consistent faces for continuity of care
  • Industry leading response times and first time fix rates
  • Motivated and knowledgeable people
  • Instant access to spare parts
  • Support calls answered instantly — less time on the phone when booking service calls