Print Optimization Services > Overview

Most college and universities lack a comprehensive and accurate view of their print-related expenses. The responsibility for purchasing equipment and supplies may be fragmented by campus, by school, or by department. Student printing is often managed by a different office than faculty or staff printing. The campus print shop probably has its own management and reporting structure. And external print is, in all probability, purchased by a variety of campus groups operating independently of one other.

It’s extremely difficult to put it all together: to understand what print assets you have campus-wide, what you’re spending on printing — and from there to figure out how to optimize your assets and spend less.

Managing and optimizing print is the core business of Pharos Systems. Leveraging our people, processes, and software tools, Pharos provides a comprehensive assessment of printing across your institution and a plan for getting to an optimal state. We help you uncover hidden costs, reduce spending, shrink your carbon footprint, and improve services to the entire campus community.

We will help you optimize printing wherever it happens: in faculty / administration / staff offices, in centralized production facilities, and externally-sourced. Pharos offers an end-to-end suite of services for each of these areas. We bring independent thinking, leading technologies, and experienced, dedicated resources to help colleges and universities streamline print processes and optimize print supply chains. And we do so from your side of the table with a vendor-neutral perspective and your objectives in mind. Our services include current-state assessment, development of the optimization strategy, RFP preparation and implementation, vendor selection and management, invoice reconciliation, fleet optimization, process reengineering, and user printing behavior modification.

All of the above capabilities are enabled by world-class people, powerful software tools, and Lean Six Sigma process methodologies.