Why Kyocera Copiers Is A Must For Any Business

October 2, 2019/in Photocopiers /by admin

Kyocera Logo

Buying or leasing a multi-functional printer or photocopier can be a minefield. Hence most large companies and small/mid-size businesses in our area turn to photocopier dealers such as us for ideas, purchase options and aftercare.

The team at Panacea want to share an insight as to why they choose to be a Kyocera dealership and why they recommend this brand, by answering some popular asked questions.

Which brand should you go for?

After extensive photocopier and multi-functional printer research and testing, Panacea chose to work with the awarding winning photocopier and multi-functional printer company, Kyocera.

Panacea are extremely proud to be the only Kyocera dealer for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, we strongly believe they are the print brand for now and the future.

Is it eco-friendly but also efficient?

Kyocera are focused on developing products that reduce costs and increase productivity with superior environmental performance for a more sustainable future.

In 2018, Kyocera was presented with the much-coveted award of The Most Reliable Multi-Functional Printer/Photocopier by the BLI (Buyers Laboratory Inc.) this prestigious award lasts for 3 years until 2021! The associate director of BLI George Mikolay commented; all Kyocera colour multi-functional printers demonstrated excellent reliability with every device scoring 10/10!

Kyocera eco-friendly toner ‘fuses’ on the page and prints at a lower temperature, therefore reducing printer power consumption by up to 50%.

Kyocera long-life components save resources, for example the amorphous silicon drums have a lifetime of up to 4,800,000 prints, double conventional drums.

The first printers to use a toner-only system, to reduce environmental impact and avoiding the need to replace plastic cartridges was designed by Kyocera

Kyocera don’t just focus on their print technology and their copiers being eco-friendly, they have also won the technical package award for their eco-friendly, moulded pulp shipping packaging.

Will my new photocopier fit in to my work environment and be future-proofed?

Kyocera stands out as a print manufacturer looking to future proof their products, knowing that the printing side of their business is diminishing due to companies wanting to be eco-friendlier and going all-out digital to become more efficient.

Even though your multifunctional printers or photocopiers original main objective was to print, these days more and more companies are using the scan and save to the cloud elements of their device.

That’s where managed printing services could be the solution for you. The managed print solution can make your business more cost efficient, it will also help you digitalise your documents using secure cloud services which you can retrieve and have at your fingertips in moments to review or share with team members.

Call the Panacea team if you would like further information or on how Panacea can help you save money on printing and on printing products, please call 01432 360229 for an informal but informative chat.

When was the photocopier invented?

September 13, 2019/in Uncategorized /by admin

Chester Carlson and two very old photocopiers

The office photocopier is an incredible machine which has saved the world billions of man-hours, what did we do before this brilliant machine?

There were four copying solutions when Chester Carlson from Seattle invented the photocopier process called electro-photography in 1937, renaming to Xerography in 1938.

These copying solutions were…

Carbon Copying
Copying by hand
Pictures
Mimeograph

Whilst working in New York, Chester was shocked to see how many man-hours were wasted copying documents.

Having graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a degree in Physics, plus earning a law degree in New York, our hero Chester Carlson, set to work coming up with a more practical way of producing many copies of a document from simply pushing a button.

Having produced white papers on how this machine could work he approached many companies who crazily turned his invention down.

Xerox Was Born

It wasn’t until 22 Years after he’d invented Xerography that the first push button automated photocopier, called Copyflo, was produced.

Quite rightly, the Haloid* Xerox photocopier called Copyflo became a huge success and the turnover grew from $2 million dollars in 1960 to $22 million dollars in 1963!

In 1955 Haloid, a photo paper manufacturer, helped Chester create CopyFlo. The company was originally called Haloid Xerox but shortened the name to Xerox when they floated on the New York stock exchange.

In the 1970s and 1980s the market was flooded with photocopying manufacturers which included Toshiba, Sharp and Kyocera.

Your humble and now highly advanced photocopiers sit in the office, churning out copies of important documents with ease and is sometimes a humorous prop at the Christmas party (I am sure Chester would be turning in his grave knowing what was photocopied at the Christmas parties). It took quite a journey to become one of the best office-based inventions of the last century, only the PC and the telephone have had a bigger impact on office life.

These days you don’t even need to buy a photocopier, you can also lease them at a low set price, see our post on the Leasing Vs Buying a photocopier.

If you’re looking to buy or lease a photocopier for your office or business, please call the Panacea sales team on 01432 360229.

Leasing A Photocopier Vs Buying A Photocopier

August 10, 2019/in Photocopiers /by admin

weighing up rent or but a photocopier

Here at Panacea in Hereford we want to make sure our customers walk away with the very best photocopier or printer solution for their business. Whether you’re looking to buy a printer outright or lease a photocopier we have put together a guide giving you some advice along with pros and cons to keep you on the right track.

Buying a Photocopier

First and foremost, purchasing a photocopier and entering into a flexible maintenance programme or full print management service has some very positive benefits to your business accounts:

Each year you can write off the depreciation of your newly purchased photocopier
The value of your photocopier will be added to the assets of your busines
There is less paperwork with no monthly payments

However, there are some negative impacts on your business and accounts:

Buying a photocopier can use up much needed cashflow
Once you’ve bought the machine it may soon become old technology
A better option may be investing your money in other parts of your business

In our opinion, buying a photocopier is a good option for a cash rich business.

Leasing a Photocopier

80% of our customers lease their photocopiers, along with our maintenance agreements and print management service. Panacea know this a very popular solution and businesses in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and the South West, we feel, have taken the right choice. Here’s why:

A massive reduction in your upfront cost
Make your balance sheet more tax efficient by offsetting your lease costs against your taxable profit, which is better than owning an asset
You will always be able to use the latest cutting-edge print technology which is better than ploughing money into a dated copier. You can upgrade or add features to your system at any time
Determine the amount you’d like to pay each month by setting the length of your lease rental agreement
Leasing a photocopier gives you flexibility as you can always replace your photocopier with a smaller or larger machine if your needs change

Why 20% of our customers buy their Large Multifunctional Printer or Photocopier:

They get to own the machine outright
It can sometimes be a problem getting a lease agreement if your business has a poor credit rating – we have found that most of our customers have been successful with their applications through our preferred finance partners

In our experience lease is the most popular choice

A massive 80% of our customers lease their photocopiers, this gives off a huge message that leasing a copier is far more tax efficient and flexible and we think, in most instances, is the better choice.

We can find you the right printer solution for your business, contact us for more details.

Gloucester’s Local Photocopier Suppliers

February 21, 2017/in Uncategorized /by admin

Panacea Business Systems are big believers in local business and we consider that most of our customers are local. Being based in Herefordshire most of our time is spent supplying photocopiers and printers in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bristol, Newport and Cardiff areas. One of the advantages of being an authorised partner of Kyocera is that we can offer fast and efficient service for office printers and photocopiers anywhere in the UK. We invest considerable time and effort in our local neighbourhoods and we really consider our patch to be a sixty-mile radius, with a centre point of Gloucester.

Our four-hour on-site response applies to anywhere in the UK, so if you have other offices/branches outside of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Avon and Wales we have no problem in accommodating your photocopier needs.

With the age of the internet it would be easy for us to target the whole UK but rather than spread ourselves thinly we like to concentrate on giving real customer service to make sure the businesses on our doorstep have the right photocopier for them.

Double Sided Printing with your Kyocera Photocopier

February 21, 2017/in Uncategorized /by admin

Here at Panacea Business Systems we want to help you make the most of your Kyocera Photocopier or office printer. Here’s a short video guide to double sided printing, also known as duplex printing.

For help getting the most from your Kyocera photocopier or office printer, or if you need service or are ready to upgrade, please contact us TODAY!

Cheapest way to Manage Office Photocopying and Printing

February 21, 2017/in Uncategorized /by admin

Firstly let’s address the title ‘Cheapest way to manage office photocopying and printing’. I don’t agree with the word cheap, in fact we at Panacea believe it should really mean the most expensive. The chances of you getting the cheapest deal for your office printer normally means you are cutting corners or compromising the package, so short term it appears cheap, but long term it’s really quite expensive. Some great examples are organisations buying cheap off-the-shelf print devices when really the money you will spend on running them makes them a far more expensive option long term; other great examples are companies buying cheap second hand photocopiers which will not last as long as a new print system and therefore are false economy, or finding the cheapest deal on the internet and then discovering you don’t have the package you thought you did and have to invest in pricey extras. Buy cheap, buy twice! A great saying but it really does have some truth!

Here at Panacea we much prefer the term: ‘good value’, and that’s what we want our customers to get. Here are a few examples of typical office printing situations and some very simple ways to save money, whilst maintaining a first class product and support package which will give you good value:

Printers for an Open Plan Office Environment

Invest in one or two (depending on the size of your workplace) multifunctional office printers with a cost per page service agreement. Most office photocopiers and printers come with secure print and ID codes or print job boxes so there really is no need to worry about jumping up and grabbing your work before prying eyes see it, or worse, it disappears. The operation is seamless but it does mean that staff will need to walk from their desk to the office printer when it is convenient for them, which for some may be an issue but the advantages are, not only will your prints be a fixed extremely competitive price, but you can see what’s being printed and by whom and that allows the money man to gain control of your print costs and give you vision.

Shared Photocopier for a Traditional Office with Different Rooms and Areas

It is still well worth investing in a main photocopier or printer similar to the first scenario, however, walking to the printer, if it is now on a different floor, is a bit more time consuming and time is money. To fix this we would recommend smaller desktop printers which are still on a service agreement (cost per page) and therefore whilst the main work load goes through the bigger main copier these convenience printers are still great value and again we can monitor exactly who is doing what and how much it is costing, allowing us once again to control print.

The scenarios are endless but our question to you is: do you know how much money your organisation spends on print, or even if you do, can you tell us your cost per print and is it good value?

If you don’t know the answer to this then maybe your setup is not as cheap as you thought. Why not start a conversation with us to get the best value from your office photocopying.

CONTACT US 01432 360229

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Why Kyocera Copiers Is A Must For Any Business

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In our experience lease is the most popular choice

Gloucester’s Local Photocopier Suppliers

Double Sided Printing with your Kyocera Photocopier

Cheapest way to Manage Office Photocopying and Printing

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