Lending Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust a helping hand.

The Trust relies heavily on its printers for its day-to-day operations, printing staff schedules and reports, lesson plans and training packs for the young people it looks after, together with a range of materials to support its marketing activities. Indeed, despite its relatively small size, the Trust prints around 200,000 pages annually and its printers are critical to the smooth running of the charity.

However, the Trust’s ageing printer fleet, which consisted of a mixture of multi-functional printers (MFPs) and desktop printers spread throughout its head office and residential facilities, was getting in the way of daily operations. Regular device faults hit productivity, a lack of functionality slowed down the rate at which staff could get things done and the printers were becoming increasingly costly to maintain. With its print support contract coming to an end, the Dean & Cauvin Trust was keen to take the opportunity to invest in a new, more cost-effective and reliable solution.

George Jose, the Finance Manager at the Trust, explained: “As a charity, we have a duty to spend our money wisely and are always looking for new ways to improve our efficiency. We decided to reassess our print estate as part of this efficiency drive, and it became clear that by changing suppliers we could cut our bills, while improving the reliability and quality of our printers. “At the same time, we produce a wide range of marketing materials, the printing of which we have historically outsourced to a local provider at a considerable cost. We wanted to bring this function back in-house to deliver further savings,” he continued.