Pharos Joins AASHE in Effort to Reduce Paper Waste on Campus

Pharos, a Business Leader sponsor of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), has joined the effort with AASHE and Root Solutions to reduce paper waste on college campuses. The program, called “Turning the Page on Campus Paper Use,” provides training, guidance and technology to help schools implement behavior-based paper reduction… [ Read more ]

A New Era of Secure Pull Printing

Every Pharos customer for the past twenty-five years has agreed on one thing: they want to make printing more efficient, more secure, and more user-friendly. The single best action an organization can take to accomplish these goals is to change their printing workflow from push (printing directly to specific devices) to pull printing, where people… [ Read more ]

4 Ways to Reach a New Audience

[From Entrepreneur.com…] Because we live in an experience-based economy, it doesn’t matter if you’re designing your customer experience intentionally or not: You’re still delivering one. Messaging plays a major role in reinforcing or diluting that experience. Here are four steps you can take to help your business appeal to new demographics. 1. Develop robust personas…. [ Read more ]

Target the Top 1 Percent to Reduce Printing Costs by 10 Percent

One of the many features of Blueprint Enterprise, our on-premises print management solution for corporations and government agencies, is something we call Policy Print. It helps companies to reduce printing costs and achieve their sustainability goals by setting and enforcing policies for specific types of print jobs. Simple pop-up messages will appear on an employee… [ Read more ]

Cloud Print Management Gaining Traction

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) market has evolved from very specific tech offerings to now include food delivery, pet sitting, storage space and much more. Its evolution is so far-reaching that it is often referred to broadly as the as-a-service model, or XaaS. This trend is not expected to slow down anytime soon, with experts predicting the… [ Read more ]

Print as a Service Joins the Great SaaS Expansion

Now that software as a service (SaaS) is commonplace and cloud-based services are practically everywhere, you might think you’ve heard about every available offering. But cloud services are still expanding their reach into some surprising areas. Here are a few industries that SaaS has only begun to penetrate. 1. Print management services   Many businesses… [ Read more ]

Saving Companies Millions on Printing – By Design (Part 4)

In part 3 of this series, we explored how to start saving your organization money by going after the low-hanging fruit immediately. Now the deeper dive begins, the execution of a comprehensive print strategy – incorporating the print policy, design, and communications plans – delivered in phases to ultimately arrive at a print environment that… [ Read more ]

One Technology to Improve Security and Reduce Expenses

You probably don’t give much thought to your organization’s office printing expenses. It’s not sexy, and it’s perceived by many people as “free.” However, you might want to think twice about this. For many companies, printing is one of the highest ongoing expense categories. Office printing costs often fly under the radar because the true… [ Read more ]

Print Management Technology: A Reality Check

It has been hard to miss the recent news story surrounding Reality Winner, the curiously named twentysomething NSA contractor who confessed to being the source of a leaked classified document concerning Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.   What is easier to miss is the method used to abscond with the classified information. Unlike… [ Read more ]

Saving Companies Millions on Printing – By Design (Part 3)

In part 2 of this series, we explored the critical importance of obtaining benchmarks and a better understanding of the costs associated with printing. Now begins the fun part: the strategic design. Here, I will introduce several keys to achieving greater efficiency, better security, more sustainable printing workflows, and ultimately the lowest costs for your… [ Read more ]