No matter when your fiscal year begins, periodic budget reviews are a key part of ensuring your government agency stays on track financially. Around the halfway point of your budget cycle, it's important to assess how well funds are holding up—and whether key operational processes like printing are contributing to unnecessary costs.

The year is already halfway through, making it the perfect time for reflection. For many businesses, mid-year is a strategic opportunity to map out the next six months as well as re-evaluate the progress of goals and initiatives set in the first quarter. For health institutions, this proactive approach is just as vital. 

As fiscal year-end reporting ramps up, so does the pressure to deliver polished, accurate, and timely documents. But printing inefficiencies, poor document workflows, and hardware hiccups can slow everything down. 

For every organization, managing office costs is always essential, and sometimes the biggest culprits are hiding in plain sight.

Copiers can become quite costly without an efficient management strategy. Users may not notice, but simple print jobs can inflate maintenance costs by demanding more toner cartridge replacements at a time.

In this article, we share easy tips to keep your copier costs in check. 

When students leave campus and administrative demands slow down, higher ed in-plant print shops have a golden opportunity: summer. This often-overlooked off-season is the ideal time to step back, reassess operations, and make improvements that will pay dividends throughout the academic year.

Whether you're looking to optimize workflows, upskill your team, expand into new services, or modernize your fleet, summer provides the time and space to make strategic moves. Here are four key areas where your in-plant can gain an edge before fall rush begins. 

Legal conferences mark an important time when legal practitioners gather to discuss relevant and essential topics within the industry. Whether they are for legal issues, casework presentations, urgent task delegation, or other crucial announcements, legal conferences play a critical role and provide direction for legal operations.

Minimizing problems during these crucial meetings should be one of the most overriding matters to tend to. For instance, delays in document delivery, technical difficulties, and disorganized paperwork can lead to a slower pace of discussion when time is of the essence. Law firms need to take the time to assess their current operations and plan for improvement.

For school administrators and teachers, summer is a great time to plan and set the stage for success in the coming school year.

Without the need to focus the attention on teaching students and handling various responsibilities, teachers and admins can start preparing materials for the upcoming academic year and even work on improving workflows.