Its 4:00 pm on a Friday afternoon and you are staring at the items that still remain on your to-do list. We’ve all had that feeling of frustration and disappointment at the day – or the week, or month even – that just ‘got away from you’ because you were busy putting out all the little fires that take up your time. The next thing on your list is dealing with an invoice on your desk for your monthly print costs that have crept up over the last few months. It’s the last thing you want to deal with, and you ask yourself – ‘Who over-ordered on the extra supplies for the printer when we have a cupboard full of them? Who submitted the expense claim for the brand new printer when we just bought one last month?’

“One of the first things we hear from our clients is that they’re spending too much time and money on their print,” says Tina Kakaria, Director of Managed Print Services for Xerox Canada. “That’s why our Managed Print Services remains one of our most popular offerings – because it can help businesses focus on their core business and take the worry out of print, in any type of print environment, no matter which brand of printers you are using.”
Xerox pioneered Managed Print Services to make your business more efficient and productive – and help save you money. With more than 20 years’ experience helping companies across Canada, we use industry-leading tools to help businesses of all sizes to reduce and optimize their printing costs.
The first step is to work with a team of Xerox experts to assess your printing needs. Then, we’ll work with you to design […]

By: Pamela Castillo
At Xerox Canada, our commitment to sustainability goes far beyond “going green” one day a year. Protecting the environment isn’t a “nice” thing to do: it’s part of our DNA and the fundamental way we do business. We align our goals for the environment in four key areas – reducing energy use and protecting the climate, preserving the world’s forests and biodiversity, preserving clean air and water, and preventing and managing wasteto make an impact across our value chain worldwide. Together, we strive to maintain the highest standards to preserve our environment and protect and enhance the health and safety of our employees and communities.

For instance, we simplify the way work gets done, and remove unnecessary resources and activities to help reduce waste. Simplicity and sustainability work together to deliver social, financial, and environmental benefits. Xerox helps reduce energy use to protect our climate by providing energy efficient products and solutions to our customers. We preserve biodiversity and the world’s forests by supplying papers that comply with sustainable forest management standards including Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). Xerox is also committed to eliminating the use of toxic materials and heavy metals from our supply chain, helping preserve clean air and water.
We also know how important it is to be intentional with how we impact our environment and planet as a whole. There are simple yet effective things we can do on a regular basis to protect our planet. Nowadays, almost everything is recyclable, so there is almost always a positive alternative to sending something to landfill. Every choice we make should be a conscious one, with the longevity of the planet in mind […]

By: Erin Gillard
They’re your favourite local restaurant with the amazing salad, the little place around the corner that made the custom cake for your daughter’s birthday, or the small print shop that created your beautiful wedding invitations. They’re small businesses (SMBs) and they are the backbone of the Canadian economy –full of people who work long hours to provide their customers with the best experience possible while tightly managing their costs.

Small businesses face unique business challenges, including reducing their print costs, managing their workflows, and increasing their productivity. Xerox Canada offers various products and services to help small business tackle their most pressing business challenges.
Check out the infographic below for more information about how Xerox helps Canada’s small businesses grow and succeed.
Source:: xerox news

By Carro Ford
We published this classic piece in October 2014, and it’s stayed at the top of the charts ever since, with thousands of views. We say it’s earned a second showing.
You might be surprised at how many ways Managed Print Services (MPS) can improve your business. While cost is often the main driver for exploring MPS, its value can touch many other areas of your enterprise. You won’t know how much until you have an MPS assessment. That’s the first step in learning where and how MPS can transform your document environment.
Have a look at this list and see how many challenges apply to your organization. You can gain valuable insights and guidance from an MPS assessment if you struggle with:

Cost-based Drivers
1. Escalating costs of existing print infrastructure
2. Pressure to reduce business costs in general
3. Increase spend predictability
4. Cost reduction mandates to reduce print spend specifically
5. Balancing operating expense versus capital spend
6. Identifying hidden costs of equipment, archiving and business processes
7. Pressure to improve revenue and margins
Governance Issues
8. Lack of understanding of existing print infrastructure
9. No ability to track and measure print environment
10. Managing large population of unconnected output devices
11. Managing Multi-vendor environment with multiple supplier contracts
12. High concentration of desktop devices
13. Current MPS contract ending in 12-18 months
14. Struggling to meet sustainability goals
Location-based Challenges
15. Integrating systems due to mergers, acquisitions or consolidation
16. Newly merged organizations seeking efficiency and savings
17. Distributed offices and multiple locations
18. Autonomous departments making their own buying decisions
19. Growing mobile workforce or widely distributed workers
Strategic, Process and Market Considerations
20. More efficiency in paper-intensive business processes
21. Customer needs that are creating new document or workflow requirements
22. Little understanding of how printed documents get used
23. Print infrastructure not aligned to business […]

A recent survey shows 80 percent of companies plan to start shifting from paper to digital processes in 2017
by John Morrison
They see paper-intensive tasks—like invoicing, reporting financials and forms for legal services and human resources—as a waste of time and resources that could be better used elsewhere.
That’s what the latest international research gathered by Xerox is telling us. A recent survey of more than 1,000 SMBs in the US, UK, France and Germany found that 80 percent companies plan to begin making the shift from paper to digital processes in 2017.
Six out of 10 respondents said their ties to paper have a significant drain on their bottom line. Their take on the situation matches up precisely with our math. Xerox has crunched the numbers and found that printing and document management typically makes up about 15 percent of an SMB’s IT budget and at least 12 percent of IT resources.
It’s encouraging to hear that so many SMBs have set their sights on making the digital transformation to realize savings and improve their workflow.
But it’s also important to set realistic targets. Shooting for a 100-percent digital workplace may seem like a fast track to efficiency and savings, but it’s not an achievable target for most companies.
The reality is that about 40 per cent of business processes are still largely document-driven and likely to remain that way.
That’s why, like all major decisions and changes that affect how a business runs, good planning will help SMBs create the best chance at success in their move to digitize paperwork wherever possible.
The first step is figuring out exactly how much paper your workplace actually uses.
To make sure you’re getting the most out of your print infrastructure, start by […]