Save toner while you print full, crisp colour pages

Once you decide to install PretonSaver you will immediately start to benefit from using less ink and toner while printing FULL, crisp colour documents without compromising on quality of output! Like many products you use on a daily basis, Ink and Toner will increase your carbon footprint when used in a normal printing environment. We at Capata.co.za can help you reduce your companies carbon footprint by saving ink while you continue to print crisp colour or black and white pages – so your documents will still look good in front of your clients.

Logically anything that can be done to reduce carbon footprint, save money for your department, reducing expenditure while going green would be welcomed by most companies. And PretonSaver, once installed, starts immediately to save on ink or toner, thus reducing your carbon footprint.

Contact us now so we can help you save ink and reduce your costs.

Saving Ink with Pixel Optimizer™

Check out PretonSaver Enterprise and its patent pending technology removes unnecessary pixels from each page of output resulting in ink and toner savings. This remarkable innovation saves 30% or more of your ink or toner budget from day one and yet this is invisible to the end user. The really good news is that with minimal customisation PretonSaver Enterprise can be further refined to increase and deliver improved savings of over 50% which means you save even more money as you use less ink and toner. Saving ink and toner is impressive but imagine saving ink and toner but having the output document look the same as the original!

The way technology works is that it converts the square pixels that you see on a normal computer screen and adds a circle around the square. This is because printers are expecting to see circles but pixels are square – so without any fuss, a circle is put around the square to satisfy the appetite of the printer. These overlapping circles are assembled at the print stage but inevitably there is pixel overlap resulting in unnecessary ink or toner that has been put on a page.

PretonSaver Enterprise automatically removes the pixels that overlap but delivers the same high quality documents without using the same amount of ink. The software has a low Windows overhead and just works in the background without the end user even knowing all of this is going on. Utilising it’s impressive algorithms, PretonSaver calculates exactly what can be removed on every page, dynamically retaining the border of each character and only removing internal pixels. Users do not have to specify if the document being printed is text, text and graphics and any other combination. PretonSaver Enterprise automatically makes any adjustment just before printing by using it’s element identifier – effectively it reads each section and applies appropriate savings to each of them. If it’s a graphic or photo it will make the appropriate reduction of pixels.

The result is crisp documents that cost less to print. Because PretonSaver Enterprise is also flexible it can be deployed by group or specific user. The powerful Print and Printer management that comes as standard will have all of the metrics you need, including, the busiest printer, busiest user and much more. This can be used to provide the internal business intelligence particularly if you want to charge users for printing.

With millions of happy users globally, PretonSaver could decrease your Carbon Footprint, contribute to your Corporate Social Responsibility activities and save you money without any major overhead or difficult implementation. By using this software innovation you can easily make a difference regardless of whether there is a recession – and let’s face facts, saving money and going green are huge topics that you can help to address.

Shocking truth about the cost of ink

Let’s think about it , most of the major manufacturers do not even let you know how many millilitres you are purchasing. In reality the major vendors are undertaking significant research and development programmes to ensure that you always get good quality and there cannot be any doubt that the whole process of getting ink to sit on the paper correctly is complex – however let’s start making some comparisons.

The first major comparison by volume is the cost of ink per US gallon is about £1,960 (R24’696.00) compared to human blood which is values at £1,1000 (R13’860.00)  a gallon – not quite double but a remarkable price .

What makes it even more shocking is that over 90% of most inks are water so in reality the chemicals that are used to create ink are even more expensive if you remove water!. Chemicals are the component that increases your carbon footprint.

Secondly the cost of fuel (petrol/diesel) per litre would definitely shock you when you start to compare costs.

Whilst printing is going to be around for a number of years doesn’t it make sense to reduce the amount that you spend on ink. Typical savings will be in the range of 30% to 70% and is dependent upon what kind of output you are producing.

Most companies want to clearly demonstrate that they are adopting best practice and PretonSaver could make an enormous difference to just about everyone who prints. Once installed it just continues to work in the background without any additional intervention.  Every page that is printed will cost left and decrease the amount of ink you use. Most people will agree that there has got to be a smarter and more affordable way when it comes to using printer ink.

Given that in today’s challenging economic times most companies are looking for innovative ways of reducing costs. If there are secondary reasons why the chosen innovation approach will help the internal green campaign then there is an additional tick in the box.

For more information please email sales at capata.co.za we can answer all of your questions and queries and then you can start saving money whilst contributing to your corporate social responsibility program.

Save Money by Saving Toner

The resources and cost required to change programs to display accurately what should be printed are costly. Couple this with the technologies required to optimise on-line presentation, companies are finding the costs colossal. Now add the complexity of different versions of web browsers developed by different vendors with different size screens and different operating systems and you get an interesting result. For many, when you put all of this together, you are often talking about a medium to large project and not the tactical strategy you wanted to adopt!

PretonSaver is therefore likely to be the answer. Typically the cost of ink has increased to such a degree that the overall cost of toner is now more expensive than vintage champagne – strange but true. Given that printing is still an expensive overhead, reducing the cost of printing can make significant savings to the expenses.

The savings that you could enjoy are typically somewhere between 30% to 70%. These vary on the basis that certain types of printed materials use much more ink. Typically you could save between 30% to 40% if you just printed regular printed output/documents. This could increase to 70% if you printed company brochures rich with photographs which are typically ink heavy. Charts are also heavy ink users and you could expect to save up to 50% on ink.

The really interesting part of these savings is that users do not even know that behind the scenes Preton Software is calculating exactly how to make these incredible savings and yet nobody will notice any difference on a day to day basis because Preton works in the background. Powerful algorithms makes the necessary changes and the user still enjoys printed output that looks exactly the same, yet you save significant money on ink and toner costs. Most companies now commonly print a combination of text, charts and photos and therefore it would not be unusual to save 50% on your toner charges.

So if saving money is on your business agenda (and why wouldn’t it be), you now have the opportunity to make incredible savings without impacting the quality of output and without asking your users for manual intervention. Simply put, Preton saves you money by reducing what you spend on replacing toner and ink.

To find out more about how you could benefit from intelligent printing email us now and start enjoying a reduction in your toner costs.

Reduce ink and toner the easy way

Yes you can recycle old print cartridges and avoid them being buried in landfill. You could choose to refill or purchase ink/toner that has some green credentials but in so many cases this only adds to budgets that are already stretched because of the global economic downturn. Coupled to this companies are purchasing recycled paper and in certain situations they have also joined the many carbon offsetting schemes which all make a difference but fundamentally there must be a way to achieve a tick in the green box whilst enjoying a reduction in the cost of ink and toner.

The great news is that Axiom Software Solutions have recently signed an agreement with Preton to resell their award winning ink/toner reduction software. Preton Enterprise immediately reduces the amount of ink or toner used for all printing. This is regardless of the print composition (graphics, photos or text) but with a remarkable outcome, as it saves a minimum of 25% of the ink or toner costs from day one! Realistically, and with a little tweaking and tuning to your environment Preton can be adjusted to save up to nearly 70% of ink/toner. Before you think that it just prints in draft mode take a moment to consider a few easy technological facts about Preton is doing to ensure that your documents look the same i.e. they have the same look and feel when printed.

Preton software removes unnecessary pixels from the pages it is about to print. If you blow up any image on a screen you will find that pixels are square. To print these square pixels your software puts a circle around the square. When it is all assembled for printing and to ensure you get the correct image there is pixel overlap. This overlap means that at a minute level, there are pixels that can be removed. Outlines are never removed but the overlapping pixels are which results in n sharp images just like you want them.

Although the technology behind all of this is complex with algorithms working in the background the result happens automatically for users with 99% of users not even knowing that in the background Preton installed by Axiom is saving money.

From a Green perspective the less ink or toner used is commendable on the basis that most toner contains volatile organic compounds composition and Green house gases. Emissions from the manufacturing process for a single mono toner cartridge is approximately 4.8 Kg CO2 per new cartridge and a remanufactured toner cartridge estimated at 2.4 kg CO2! When you couple this with paper reduction achieved by using Preton Enterprise print management features you will agree that the reduction in carbon footprint and the savings to the environment then often the cost savings are considered secondary!

Today, Preton Enterprise is saving ink and toner in many global companies maybe we could do the same for you. Check it out by phoning or e-mail us now!