We have a Digimaster 150 that we do volume of about 1 million pages per month on, we pay .0039 per click and 11 x 17 is 2 clicks.

A friend of mine that works with the county works with a couple of 9110's and they pay .0025. There volume is around 2 million pages per month and 11 x 17 is 1 click.

We are thinking about investing in a color press, either the xeikon, xerox or nexpress. I am thinking the nexpress might be our best bet since I might be able to leverage a better click charge on our BW machine as well but I have no idea what is good to start with.

If anybody can point me in the right direction or answer this question, that would be nice, I sure don't want to be paying twice as much as the county.

Thanks

Jorge P.

Click prices can be all over the board. It depends heavily on your volume and machine count.

The county probably has many machines and can leaverage government pricing which most commercial entities.

Patrick is correct, these costs can be all over the board. Sometimes prices can come down with a higher monthly commitment vs. no monthly commitment. Sometimes service costs and equipment costs can change the click pricing.

It is not uncommon to see 11x17 as 2 click charge; however, sometimes that can get confusing when comparing pricing. It depends on your work to determine what the best deal to ask for is. If you do almost all of your work 11x17 or larger, a slightly higher 1 click 11x17 might be better than a lower 2 click model. That probably would not be true if you run a lot of 8.5x11.

Government or education status can often times allow you to negotiate lower prices, that definitely makes your comparison more difficult.

My recommendation would be to evaluate how you want to run your work (primarily most common sizes) before negotiating clicks. I would suspect you can leverage better overall prices by doing more business with your existing vendor than if you had 2 different vendors.

Cheers,
John

I was hoping to get some basis for bargaining. What got me started is that Konica came by and offered me .0025 per 8.5 x 11 and they will give me the same charge for 11 x 17. If I print two up ordered, that comes out to a decent savings over the year.

I don't think the Konicas are heavy duty enough, maybe they are, but I killed two Ricohs already and don't really want to go that route again. If Konica can do it on a machine that is bound to need more service than the digi, then I'm starting to think we are being charged too much.

Anyway, I wish this was a standard price based on volume or..., I feel like I am out to buy a car or something.

Thanks,

Jorge

All Big four are OK Xerox Xeikon Nexpress or Oce !
The question here which application you will run .
IOntensive hand coded script Job designers prefer Xerox! as VIPP made things easier for develping complex prin jobs and VDP with conditionals personalizations.!

Some pother developers use Postscript direct without any fear of coding just need reliable PS Engline ! genuine Adobe.

If you com e to cost I believe all of them can compromize and change their rate as you pushing tough negotiation :-) nothing can not be change!

For Color Jobs that might have High Volume and consistent quality (reliable Engine) NexPress is my choice !

For fast digital repeated job Xerox is reliable

Still the ppoint of developing the application and integrated the System within your workflow will make the difference of choosing the vendor

Regards
Adam
B&W