Hello again,
Well the title of this Blog represents a bit of a dilemma. After years of ultra low cost printing, guess what? Yes, we printed everything, all the time. Now, with costs escalating out of sight with a new printer, we are going paperless at last.
When I worked in the computer business the paperless office was all the rage. I was selling these systems, but neither me nor my customers really believed a word of it. Well, some of them have managed it – scanning everything etc eventually. For a small business like mine, there is a temptation to print off lots of correspondence and orders and clip the work card to it for our ever expanding files.
Then, at a stroke, it’s all over – now only the bare essentials are being printed and those are just for our customers so we don’t keep anything, apart from paper that comes in.
Having a shock to the system is almost as good as having a real ‘fire at the office’ situation where you have to decide what to keep doing and what to dump, imagining that you have to start from scratch.
Very satisfying too.
In fact as part of the ‘print nothing’ plan, ever more unnecessary steps have been removed and everything speeds up a bit – makes for a more interesting office too as more time to think of new products and ways to move the business forward rather than being weighed down by paperwork. Try it sometime-print nothing!
Postscript – now after several months, I have tracked down a compatible cartridge supplier who sells what I want for 25% of the original manufacturer – hope they work. In addition, now scanning lots more and just sending an attachment to customers and suppliers. All this means that our operation is much slicker and lower cost. Just the ticket.
Have a great week – this Blog is a bit late as our systems were down during an upgrade to our broadband last Friday.
All the best, Roy Lewis
www.hebridean-liqueurs.co.uk