| If you're ready to upgrade to the new models and | | | | elaborate. |
| designs in digital copiers, then you might be surprised at | | | | If your business will use the copier machines as a |
| some of the features that are available to you. It can | | | | printer as well as a copier, you may need a more |
| be very easy to be wooed by the biggest and best | | | | substantial machine because that does add to the |
| copier machines available on the sales floor. All the | | | | wear and tear. And you may also want to consider a |
| different features that they offer can seem amazing | | | | machine that can scan and fax. These add to the cost |
| and well worth the money spent. But before you | | | | but make the one machine much more efficient and |
| invest that kind of money, you need to look at the way | | | | can save space by eliminating other office equipment. |
| your business works and what your true needs are. | | | | There's also a cost discrepancy between black and |
| You need to make sure that the one you choose is | | | | white copiers and color copiers. If you're going to use |
| right for your business. | | | | the copier as a printer a great deal of the time, you |
| Look at Extra Features | | | | should look at some of the color digital copiers. If you're |
| Today's digital copiers seem to do everything but | | | | only going to need color printing occasionally, you may |
| make coffee and answer the phones. At least, the | | | | wish to invest in an inexpensive color printer and |
| high-end digital copiers seem to have features that | | | | choose a black-and-white digital copier instead. Digital |
| make the copy machines of yesterday look like Stone | | | | copiers cost more when they can print in color, and |
| Age equipment. Sorting, stapling, document imaging and | | | | you might not find the price difference is worth it if you |
| even memory storage make today's digital copiers | | | | rarely need that feature. You may also choose a |
| more like computers than ever before. But how many | | | | faster copier that costs more if you want to be able |
| features in a copier machine does your business really | | | | to print pages much more quickly. |
| need? | | | | Keep Security in Mind |
| Most businesses don't make thousands of copies per | | | | Digital copiers today are computers with chips and |
| month. In fact most make hundreds of copies rather | | | | memory inside them. That means that sensitive |
| than thousands. The vast majority of businesses that | | | | documents that are scanned and copied are stored |
| use a copy machine on a regular basis make less than | | | | within the copier. If your business regularly handles very |
| 3000 copies each month, while another large portion of | | | | sensitive information, you'll want to consider the risk |
| businesses make less than 10,000. The true heavy | | | | that a digital copier poses and take steps to make |
| hitters that make tens of thousands of copies per | | | | sure that no one can access the memory. Talk to the |
| month are going to need a much larger and more | | | | salesperson about the type of memory your copier |
| substantial copy machine. But most small and | | | | has and steps that can be taken to protect the |
| medium-size businesses won't need anything so | | | | information. |
