So I was out to dinner with a friend last night and she asked me my thoughts on a work issue that I thought you all would be a great resource for.
She is a Retirement Plan Consultant at a 4 person 401k group. She is also their IT person by default. Recently, she was looking at their toner costs for a year and realized that they spend about 10k in toner each year because when they visit clients to talk about the retirement plans, they print out large booklets explaining the plan for each client.
She wants to cut back on this cost but isn't sure how. She is throwing around ideas like:
- only showing the plans on ipads (still high cost though but saves some trees)
- outsourcing the printing (but they are usually making changes up to a few hours before the meeting)
- renting new printers (but the costs of renting these are pretty high).
Any other ideas or similar experiences that I can share with her?