“Every silver lining’s got a touch of grey.” – Unknown
Thank Goodness! We can now use the Toner Optimizer to make our printing smart. Toners have come a long way. Copiers have since graduated from being an encumbering equipment that required high-level technical training to operate. Toners are no longer feared for their likelihood to cause health problems or even explode without warning.
Printing now happens at the push of a button. If the printers have any problems, they show us error codes to indicate the exact problem, and we’d just fix it.
There’s finally a silver lining! We can now print in a breeze — anyone, anytime, anywhere. Wow! Things are looking up.
Or are they?
OK, maybe indeed things are looking good, but there’s a touch of grey in this silver lining. If you have a business and use toner printer, then you may already be worried:
Your printer BLEEDS more toner than it needs and this is costing you money,
Printing resources are hard to account for,
You are contributing to the landfill and environmental problems that cartridges are causing (without any hope of reducing your carbon footprint),
Printer troubleshooting and printing issues waste a significant amount of time, energy, and money,
Your WAN is getting overloaded by your network of printers, and that’s causing a leak in your organization’s performance.
These concerns are genuine. The truth is that your resources are indeed leaking away, and your toners are encumbering the environment.
But there’s another silver lining!
You can STOP the leak, boost productivity, and reduce your carbon footprint. What’s more? You can do all that with just a software — a Toner Optimizer.
A while ago Xerox introduced the Toner Optimizer tool. The software helps you reduce your carbon footprint while keeping your print speed and quality at its highest; it cuts printing cost, improves toner efficiency, and improves business productivity.
Let’s examine five benefits you stand to gain from using a Toner Optimizer tool.
1. The Best Print Quality with the Least Amount of Toner
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You want to reduce your printing costs; the Toner Optimizer tool does exactly that does for you. The software identifies multiple elements on a page, such as graphics, texts, colors shades, and images, using advanced algorithms. This optimizer then reduces — to the lowest level possible — the amount of toner that goes into that printing work, while enabling the highest print quality and in the shortest time possible.
The software can save you up to 35 percent of pixels on text and 18 percent of pixels on graphics.
In short, Toner Optimizer saves you money, elongates the lifespan of your toner, and improves your print quality. This point alone is a big deal. There’s, even more, benefits to using Toner Optimizer Software Read on.
2. Saves the Environment
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Authority sources report that the volume of toners that go to landfills yearly would easily cover 100 standard-sized football fields. The figure is currently at 350 million toner cartridges and is growing every year by 12 percent. In less than ten years, we’d have thrown enough toner cartridges away to cover ALL the stadiums in North America
Apart from the toners themselves, other resources like aluminum, oil, and plastic go to waste. In fact, 33.6 million kilograms of aluminum, 3.5 billion liters of oil, and more than more than 126 million kg of plastic are consumed every year as a direct result of landfilling with toner cartridges.
What’s more? It takes 1,000 years for a toner cartridge disposed of off in a landfill to degrade. Without considering the carbon cost of producing the toner itself, the manufacturing process of one mono-toner cartridge (again, just the cartridge alone) releases 4.8 kilograms of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the most abundant greenhouse gas we have today.
Toner Optimizer identifies and removes excess pixels from prints, without compromising on print quality. By reducing the volume of toners you consume, you have directly cut your carbon footprint and lowered the 12 percent growth rate in toners that go to landfills yearly. You have also lessened the waste that results from toner cartridge packaging and transportation.
3. Captures Useful Data
Your Toner Optimizer grants you the opportunity to oversee your printing infrastructure. You can see insights on all directly connected USB devices. Toner Optimizer makes it possible for you to identify and capture information about your printing infrastructures, such as paper and toner usage, number of connected users, the volume of printed pages, and all job tracking details.
Gathering data helps you make management decisions, cut costs and monitor waste. You’re in a better place because you know who’s using the most resources, whether the resource use is efficient, and what kind of printers to buy or replace.
4. Productive Printer Networking
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If you’re a large organization and have offices in multiple geographic locations, effective printer networking can be a hassle. Of course, a Toner Optimizer would be helpful if your company wants to manage it’s printing across the whole building — not across geographic locations.
Now, what’s to happen if your company decides to centralize its printing and have it managed over its wide area network (WAN)?
What would you do?
First thing would be to optimize the organization’s WAN.
Since you’ve decided to network all the printers over that WAN, your printer network would contribute a lot of traffic to your WAN. For this reason, you want to make your printing priority.
Applying the insights you gathered from your Toner Optimizer can help you manage, and even eliminate, wide area traffic from your printing. As an effect, optimizing your printing traffic supports your organization’s wide area network (WAN) to become efficient as a whole.
Having a centralized print management software dramatically reduces printer support issues. As an example, if you’re experiencing a slow network when you need to update a printer driver, the printer servers may be unreachable or even crash.
The problem described above can be hard to detect and deal with individually — a print management software would be ideal for the situation. Your Toner Optimizer furnishes helpful troubleshooting tools, centralizes control and manages individual printer queues, and helps maintain complex networking needs without hassle.
5. Integrates Well with Your Existing Workflow
The Toner Optimizer is highly responsive. With its self-configuration and self-discovery abilities, a Toner Optimizer tool blends effortlessly into any print environment. You can adjust them to fit your specific needs and configure them to work with a particular group of users.
Toner Optimizer software runs in the background. Other software-enabled tools that need to work can work simultaneously with the optimizer. The print management software won’t interrupt existing business process or workflows.
A good Toner Optimizer should be very flexible. It should fit into the company’s goals effortlessly — the organization should be better at acquiring, shrinking, growing, cutting, and evolving in any way it deems fit or needs, without struggle or stress from the software.
The goal of the optimizer tool is to help businesses across the globe simplify, secure, automate, integrate, and optimize their everyday tasks. It also helps them use their resources more efficiently and responsibly.
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Conclusion
The silver lining in the environmental and financial burden foisted upon us by the toner cartridge industry is the Toner Optimizer tool. For now, we can’t place a finger on any “touch of grey” resulting from this software, and it probably doesn’t have one — yet.
For now, be assured that the Toner Optimizer lays most (if not all) of your worries to rest. If you haven’t started using the software already, it’s one to try. Remember that vendors may call it by other names like Pixel Optimizer, even Xerox calls their Xerox Assessment Tools or Print Awareness Tool.