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Cambridge Managed Print FAQs
Your complete resource on managed print services in Cambridge. Clear answers and in depth guides for science parks, life science labs, colleges, professional firms and city centre offices, covering security, contracts, cost and sustainability.
Managed print in Cambridge is not quite like anywhere else. The city packs world leading research, fast growing technology firms, a collegiate university and hundreds of professional practices into one small and often historic footprint. Each of them prints differently and each has its own worries about security, cost and reliability.
This collection brings together everything a Cambridge organisation needs to understand about managed print services in one place. Whether you run a biotech on a research park, a college bursary, a law firm in the centre of town or a startup taking its first unit, there is a guide below written for your setting. If you are not sure where to begin, start with the complete guide and follow the links from there.
Start with the complete guide
Managed print by sector and setting
These guides look at managed print through the lens of a particular kind of Cambridge organisation, from the research parks and life science campuses to the colleges and the historic city centre.
Security, setup and sustainability
These guides tackle the topics that cut across every sector, including confidential printing, onsite support, setting up a new site and cutting your environmental footprint.
Ready to talk about your own print?
The guides are a great start but the fastest way to see what managed print could do for your organisation is a free print audit. We map your devices, volumes and costs and design a fleet around how you really work, with no obligation to go further.
- End to end. Audit, design, install and support in one service.
- Secure by default. Card release, encryption and certified data wipe.
- Built to scale. Add and move devices as your organisation grows.
- Locally backed. Regional engineers across Cambridge and Silicon Fen.
Managed print in Cambridge, frequently asked questions
What are managed print services?
Managed print services means a single provider supplies your printers and copiers along with all consumables, servicing, print management software, security and support for one predictable cost. Instead of buying devices and managing everything yourself you get a designed, monitored fleet billed as a service.
How much do managed print services cost in Cambridge?
Cost depends on your volumes, the devices you need and the level of security and support, so it is quoted per organisation rather than as a fixed price. A managed contract is usually cheaper than owning printers once consumables, servicing and staff time are included. Every quote starts with a free print audit so the figures reflect how you really print.
Is managed print suitable for a small Cambridge business?
Yes. The service scales down as well as up, so a small firm gets the same security, reliability and cost control as a large one, sized and priced for its actual volumes rather than a big organisation template.
How secure is managed print for confidential work?
Very secure when it is set up properly. Secure print release keeps confidential output off shared trays, device drives are encrypted and securely wiped and each machine leaves site with a certificate of data destruction. That matters a great deal for the research and professional firms across Cambridge.
Do you cover the whole Cambridge and Silicon Fen area?
Yes. We support organisations across Cambridge, the science parks and the surrounding towns and villages including Sawston, Cambourne, St Ives, Huntingdon, Ely, Newmarket and Royston. Because our engineers are regional the onsite response is usually the same working day.
How do we switch to managed print?
It starts with a free print audit of your current devices, volumes and costs. From there we design a right sized fleet, install and secure it with no disruption to your work and then support it with proactive monitoring and local engineers. Moving from another supplier is handled for you.
If you would rather talk it through than read, we are happy to help. Our Managed Print Services Cambridge service page explains how we run a free audit, design a right sized fleet and support it across Cambridge and the Silicon Fen area and you can call the team direct on 01234 331360 whenever suits you.