Yes, I can't get enough of work.
No, I keep work and home separate.
Who Cares?
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
I have quite a diverse selection in my home. My favorite baby is the Canon IR600, I have a Gestetner copyprinter 5450, an hp and lexmark laser, and a brother fax. Where my cars used to sit in the garage there's about 100 laser printers on pallets. Anyone need a printer?
I have brought several "orphans" home. Replaced my ink jet printers with them, gave one to my daughter to use at her university (seems she is popular at times), one to my sister, and one to my dad. High quality printing/copies/fax for low per copy and maintence costs, plus I do labor for free.
BTW: I also have a number of old computers and monitors still kicking around.
A copier is the last thing I wanna look at when I get home.
Any copying/faxing I do, I do in the office.
My only printer is a LJIIc thats still kicking butt.
I have a Canon c3200 in my home office. Comes in handy because my wife is taking photography/graphic design classes.
im using my old 1750mp
y? coz i have to finish all my toner cartrige... yup 4 dozen to go...
Yes. I have an imagisitics 3510.
There's a couple of routes that might work, depending on who you want your target customer to be. If you want to target the end consumer you'll need word of mouth and marketing to solicit there business. I'd focus on high volume users like accounting, medical, legal firms. Maybe offer a pick up/copy/deliver type of business.
The other route would be wholesale to the trade. If you can get your price low enough sell to other copy/print shops, brokers, commercial printers. Advertise in trade publications.
You'll have higher margins and more flexibility by offering color or some additional services such as finishing.
The key question to ask is why would they buy copies from you especially if they can do it for the same or cheaper click charge. You have to be able to answer that. Offer better color, cheaper rates, options that are cost prohibitive to them such as making tablets, forms, binding, cutting, mail fullfillment services (this is not to be taken lightly and is its own business itself), etc. Maybe you can take extra capacity off of other printers so the work gets shipped out sooner.
Hope these ideas help. Good Luck!
Just bought a Ricoh Aficio SPC222SF at clearance price. Wife loves it!
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
hell yes, i have a toshi 1370(old faithful) and an HP2200(not quite as old, but just as faithful). Oh and dont forget the canon ink jet from the post office which cost less to purchase than a complete set of inks.
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