PRINT MANAGEMENT
H Hospital holding puts pressure on costs
ospitalvereinigung St. Nikolaus Lippstadt is a
regional association
of three Catholic hospitals in Germany’s western towns of Lippstadt, Erwitte and Geseke. By offering a wide range of medical services for the whole county it has allowed the group to develop a multitude of medical specialties.
With three hospital sites housing 580 beds, a total of 1,000 employees take care of an estimated 18,000 inpatients per year.
The German hospital organisation has optimised its entire printing infrastructure with OKI Print Optimiser. Now printing at a monthly rate means costs are transparent and predictable within all departments.
Black and white and colour printing is part of the daily ‘ward round’ for the employees, be it in the operating theatres, marketing departments or in the warehouse – the hospital group prints more than 4000 pages every day. Capacity and reliability of the printers is therefore key to the organisation.
In total, the hospital group achieves a monthly print volume of 127,000 pages, most of this in mono.
When the three hospitals merged they came with their own historically developed printer infrastructure. Over three sites, the group had just fewer than 200 printers from four different manufacturers with a variety of technologies.
As head of IT Jürgen Lammert says: “We were stuck in an
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“OKI compiled a streamlined output concept, specifically tailored to our needs, which did not rely on generic statistics, but on real data gathered onsite,” says Larisch.
The result
All 196 legacy machines from competitors, were replaced with OKI equipment. The cost for this spring clean was included in the monthly flat rate and the exchange was done at no extra cost to the hospital.
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equipment maze of 45 different inkjet and laser printers. Ordering and managing the multitude of consumables for all printers was highly time intensive, plus increasing costs of consumables meant older models turned out to be bottomless pits.
“The hospital group tried to counter this development by using refills but this only lowered the print quality, while increasing the number of complaints. With print volumes continuing to rise, the infrastructure could simply not keep up.”
The solution
Being faced with rising print costs and a reduction in productivity, looking for a conclusive output management solution which promised to optimise costs, infrastructure as well as processes was vital.
Christian Larisch, managing director of the hospital holding, decided to implement the
OKI Print Optimiser. “Key from my point of view was the cost effectiveness of the OKI solution. In addition, the model consolidated our output infrastructure, so that we now only use two models, but we have managed to increase our productivity significantly. Not forgetting it is easier to enter a longer term relationship, if you have a partner that you trust.”
The OKI Print Optimiser means efficient output management at a monthly flat rate, with a cost free analysis of all existing printer and copier hardware. During the course of this analysis OKI identified the relevant print requirements in all three hospitals, the space assigned to the equipment as well as the environment and size of the work groups.
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Using OKI’s monitoring software PrintSuperVision and connecting the printers via the network facilitates means the entire output infrastructure is being monitored, failures easily detected and passed on to the service partner. They can then interact remotely or send one of their technicians, as necessary.
In addition, OKI
PrintSuperVision allows IT to monitor productivity and distribution of the printers, augmenting their position where appropriate. Consumables are also closely monitored and stock greatly reduced.
The hospital has been able to reap major benefits from introducing OKI Print Optimiser, as Jürgen Lammert remarks: “Due to the excellent print quality, we can also produce first class marketing collateral at all three sites with our A4 colour printers.
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