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Establish the facts everyone in the room agrees on before any money is discussed: who this is for,
how many devices there are, and how many pages they produce.
“How big is the estate, and how much does it actually print?”
Everything the customer already pays for printing — not just the click rate on the contract.
This is the number the whole business case is measured against, so it is built and agreed
before a single saving is mentioned.
“What is print really costing us today — all in?”
C L I C K S & C O N S U M A B L E S
Current B&W click cost (€/page)
Current colour click cost (€/page)
Paper cost per sheet (€)
F L E E T F I N A N C E
Current monthly lease (€/device)per device / month × N devices
Avg. printer price (€)owned devices — for depreciation
Device lifespan (years)
Hardware cost = (devices × price) ÷ lifespan. Leave price at 0 for a fully leased fleet.
Every field left at 0 is simply excluded from the baseline — the model never invents cost.
Total annual cost—
True B&W €/page—
True colour €/page—
Hidden cost share—
3 · The MPS proposal
What the provider is putting on the table: the new fleet, the new rates, the services included, and what
the customer has to invest to get there.
“What are you proposing, and what does it cost me to switch?”
C O N T R A C T T E R M S
New number of devices
follows the current fleet until you change it
New B&W click rate (€/page)
New colour click rate (€/page)
New monthly fleet lease (€/device)
Contract duration (years)
⚠ One or more MPS click rates are higher than the customer’s current rates —
the deal costs the customer more per page than today.
I N V E S T M E N T & S E R V I C E S
Software solution (€/device/year)
Implementation / investment cost (€)
include multi-site rollout for > 1 location
Savings assumptions
populates the print-policy rates below. It adds no hidden factors.
Custom assumptions are available with PrintManagementROI Pro. Free calculations use the
transparent Conservative or Typical presets.
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Mobile printing solution included?
→ if yes, quantify the benefit in step 4
24/7 fleet monitoring included?
MFA authentication (card reader + PIN)?
Services selected here also drive the Solution Coverage Indicator in Act 6.
R E S I D U A L U N D E R M P S
⚠ What share of each cost survives the move to MPS. At 0% the model claims
MPS drives that cost to exactly zero — rarely true, and the first thing a CFO will challenge.
IT labour retained (%)printer support that does not go away
Maintenance retained (%)
Downtime retained (%)no fleet reaches 100% uptime
Hardware depreciation retained (%)0 if the new fleet is fully leased
Residual annual cost under MPS€ 0
MPS annual cost—
Total investment—
Contract value—
Per-page vs today—
4 · Optimisation rules
The behavioural and routing changes that reduce volume. These are the levers you will move
live in front of the customer — every one of them updates the rail on the right instantly.
“Where does the volume actually go away?”
P R I N T P O L I C Y R U L E S
Force mono rate (%)
Colour pages converted to B&W
Current duplex rate (%)
measured today — set by the fleet report import
Force duplex rate (%)
Only the uplift over today's rate is credited
User-deleted jobs (%)
Jobs deleted before printing
Auto-expired jobs (%)
Pages timed out on server, never printed
Digitization / reduce copies (%)
Paper workflows converted to digital
Job routing optimization (%)
⚠ overridden
Jobs routed to cheaper devices
Other policy rules (%)
Consultant-defined savings
▲ Net volume reduction0%
J O B R O U T I N G (P R E C I S E)
Redirected pages / yearoverrides routing % when > 0
High-cost device CPP (€/page)
Low-cost device CPP (€/page)
Redirection savings€ 0
Savings = redirected pages × (high CPP − low CPP). ⚠ capped at actual printed volume
R E M O T E S I T E M A N A G E M E N T
Single-site estate — nothing to quantify. Set Number of locations above 1
in step 1 to enable this.
Annual savings from remote management (€)
centralised fleet management across sites
Remote site saving€ 0
M O B I L E P R I N T I N G
Not included in the proposal. Set Mobile printing solution included? to
Yes in step 3 to quantify it — these four fields produce the
productivity line in Act 04.
⚠ This is imputed staff time, not an invoice reduction. It is reported
separately as productivity value in the Act 04 bridge.
Number of mobile users
Avg. mobile jobs per user / month
Avg. time saved per mobile job (min)
Staff hourly rate (€/hr)
loaded cost of general staff — independent of the IT rate
Mobile productivity saving€ 0
users × jobs/month × minutes ÷ 60 × rate × 12
M O D E L A S S U M P T I O N S
Benefit confidence (%)
scales every modelled benefit: policy volume reduction, routing and productivity. Invoiced costs and rates are never scaled.
Report productivity separately?
keeps imputed staff time out of the headline saving, ROI and payback
Active scenarioExpected
D E L E T E D J O B S
Combined deletion rate (capped 95%)0%
Pages deleted before printing are excluded from click cost entirely.
Volume reduction—
Annual saving—
Payback—
Optimization index—
Reading the coloursCosts you todayYou get backThe proposalYou commitReference only
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The business case is not ready yet
Results stay hidden until the model has enough to be credible. Nothing here is a placeholder or
a guess — if a number is shown to a CFO, it is because you entered what it is built from.
ACT 01What print costs you todayAgree the baseline before anything else. Every saving on the following pages is measured against this number.
Total annual cost of print——
Hidden — never on the print invoiceAlready on the print invoice
True cost of a B&W click
Contract rate—
→
All-in reality—
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of contract rate
Contract click rate + paper + a pro-rata share of lease, hardware, IT, maintenance and downtime.
True cost of a colour click
Contract rate—
→
All-in reality—
—
of contract rate
The gap between the two columns is the part of print spend that never appears on a print invoice.
ACT 02How much of that is wasteThe part of the baseline that buys nothing: pages nobody collects, colour nobody needed, sheets nobody reads.
Estimated annual print waste——
Pages never printed—deleted or expired before release
Colour → mono shift—colour pages that did not need to be colour
Net volume reduction—of total pages removed by policy
ACT 03What we propose insteadThe same estate, run under a managed contract with policy in place.
Current annual print cost
—
click costs + paper + hardware + IT + maintenance + downtime
→
MPS annual cost
—
new clicks + paper + lease + software
B&W rate—current → proposed per page
Colour rate—current → proposed per page
Customer investment—implementation + software over the term
Total contract value—what the provider bills over the term
ACT 04What the customer gets backOnly now do we talk about return — against a baseline the customer has already accepted.
Annual cash saving—money that stops leaving the business, every year
Total contract saving—across the full term
Payback period—until the investment is repaid
ROI over the term—return on the customer’s investment
How the annual saving is built up
Productivity value—imputed staff time and avoided effort — deliberately excluded from the
saving, ROI and payback above
Scenario applied—confidence level applied to every modelled benefit
Cash cost reduction—invoiced print cost removed, as a share of today’s total — excludes productivity value
Saving vs contract value—total contract saving ÷ what the provider bills over the term
C O S T S A V I N G S T R E N D
Cumulative cost — no MPS
Cumulative cost — with MPS
Break-even: calculating...
ACT 05Beyond the moneyThe sustainability and productivity story — increasingly the part the board asks about.
Paper sheets saved—from duplex enforcement
Trees saved—est. 1 tree per 8,333 sheets
Downtime cost today—lost productivity, removed under MPS
Mobile productivity saving—time returned to staff
Remote site saving—centralised multi-site management
ACT 06Where this deal sits on the maturity curveThe Solution Coverage Indicator — how much of the available managed-print value this deal actually captures.
Its tier colours are a maturity scale, not the cost colours used above.
S O L U T I O N C O V E R A G E I N D I C A T O R
W H A T T H I S D E A L C A P T U R E S
Disclaimer: This document presents an estimation based on a set of assumptions and indicative inputs provided at the time of preparation. Actual results, savings, and costs may vary depending on real-world conditions, usage patterns, contractual terms, and other factors. This analysis is intended for indicative purposes only and does not constitute a binding offer or guarantee of financial outcomes.
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1
Baseline
Capture devices, page volume, color use, click charges, paper, hardware, lease, IT, maintenance and downtime.
2
Optimize
Model consolidation, new CPP, pull print, duplex, mono conversion, routing, mobile workflows and remote management.
3
Measure
Calculate annual and cumulative savings, current and optimized TCO, payback, ROI and environmental estimates.
4
Build the business case
Support budget approvals, MPS projects, fleet renewals, procurement, tenders and investment decisions.
Transparent assumptions. No black-box ROI.
See exactly how the model works
The methodology documents current print cost, optimized MPS cost, volume policies, routing, productivity benefits, annual savings, ROI, payback, environmental estimates and the Solution Coverage Indicator directly from the calculator logic.
Your inputs stay visiblePresets populate editable fields; nothing is hidden.
Rates are checkedThe calculator warns when proposed click rates exceed current rates.
Limitations are explicitResults are indicative, not guaranteed savings or a binding offer.
Beyond print
Printing is only one part of your document cost
Paper handling, manual data entry, document retrieval, approval workflows and physical archives can cost organizations significantly more than printing itself.
Managed Print Services is an ongoing approach to assessing, supplying, supporting and optimizing an organization's printer and MFP fleet, often including monitoring, consumables, service, security and print-management policies.
How is MPS ROI calculated?
The calculator compares the modeled annual cost of the current fleet with the optimized annual MPS cost, then relates projected savings to implementation and software investment over the selected contract term. The full formula is documented in the methodology.
What costs should be included in a print fleet assessment?
Include click charges, paper, leases or hardware depreciation, software, IT administration, maintenance and credible downtime costs. Use only savings assumptions supported by the proposed solution or customer data.
How accurate is the calculator?
Accuracy depends on the quality of the inputs and assumptions. It is an indicative business-case tool, not a guarantee. A fleet audit and contract review can replace estimates with measured data.
Is my information uploaded to a server?
Calculator inputs are processed and stored locally in your browser and are not sent to our servers. Contact or account information is separate and would only be transmitted through a deliberately configured contact or account service.
Can I use the calculator for a print tender?
Yes, it can help structure a transparent baseline and scenario model, but procurement requirements, bidder responses and final commercial evaluation should be validated independently.
Can PrintManagementROI audit my printer fleet?
Print fleet audit and optimization advisory is offered as a consultation pathway. Scope, data availability, geography and deliverables need to be agreed before an engagement is confirmed.
Can you help create an MPS tender or RFP?
Tender and RFP advisory can cover discovery, requirements, SLAs, security, pricing schedules, response templates, evaluation criteria, scoring and TCO modeling.
Can you help with digitization and document management projects?
Advisory can help assess paper-heavy processes and prepare a vendor-neutral roadmap or business case for scanning, content services, document management, IDP and workflow automation.
Can MPS providers use the calculator with customers?
Yes. The free calculator can support transparent customer conversations. Saved assessments, branded reports, team workflows and white labeling are future Pro or Partner directions, not current free features.
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