Comparing Digital Copiers

If you're ready to upgrade to the new models and designs in digital copiers, then you might be surprised at some of the features that are available to you.  It can be very easy to be wooed by the biggest and best copier machines available on the sales floor.  All the different features that they offer can seem amazing and well worth the money spent.  Before you invest that kind of money, you need to look at the way your business works and what your true needs are.  You need to make sure that the one you choose is right for your business.

Look at Extra Features

Today's digital copiers seem to do everything but make coffee and answer the phones.  At least, the high-end digital copiers seem to have features that make the copy machines of yesterday look like Stone Age equipment.  Sorting, stapling, document imaging and even memory storage make today's digital copiers more like computers than ever before.  You need to ask yourself, how many features in a copier machine does your business really need?

Most businesses don't make thousands of copies per month.  In fact most make hundreds of copies rather than thousands.  The vast majority of businesses that use a copy machine on a regular basis make less than 3000 copies each month, while another large portion of businesses make less than 10,000. The true heavy hitters that make tens of thousands of copies per month are going to need a much larger and more substantial copy machine.   Most small and medium-size businesses won't need anything so elaborate.

If your business will use the copier machines as a printer as well as a copier, you may need a more substantial machine because that does add to the wear and tear, and you may also want to consider a machine that can scan and fax.  These add to the cost, but make the one machine much more efficient and can save space by eliminating other office equipment.

There's also a cost discrepancy between black and white copiers and color copiers.  If you're going to use the copier as a printer a great deal of the time, you should look at some of the color digital copiers.  If you're only going to need color printing occasionally, you may wish to invest in an inexpensive color printer and choose a black-and-white digital copier instead.  Digital copiers cost more when they can print in color, and you might not find the price difference is worth it if you rarely need that feature.  You may also choose a faster copier that costs more if you want to be able to print pages much more quickly.

Keep Security in Mind

Digital copiers today are computers with chips and memory inside them.  That means that sensitive documents that are scanned and copied are stored within the copier.  If your business regularly handles very sensitive information, you'll want to consider the risk that a digital copier poses and take steps to make sure that no one can access the memory.  Talk to the salesperson about the type of memory your copier has and steps that can be taken to protect the information.

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