Victorian water supplier Yarra Valley Water and Canon have signed a three-year contract to consolidate and streamline the utility’s print environment.
The contract is expected to save Yarra Valley Water about $100,000 in print costs in the first year alone, as well as improve productivity, reduce costs and minimise environmental impact.
The contract has already begun, with Canon reducing Yarra Valley Water’s 83 printers and scanners replaced by 16 multifunction devices. Yarra Valley Water will also introduce Canon’s uniFLOW software to give an accurate view of printing costs.
In just a month, Yarra Valley Water saved more than $2400 through the deletion of jobs that were not collected from printers. Users also printed on both sides of the paper 74 per cent of the time, saving 84,571 sheets of paper.
Yarra Valley Water IT operations manager Craig Lindley said the sustainable print strategy would reduce the organisation’s environmental footprint and was part of its wider “green office” strategy.
“They have supplied us with two types of multifunction devices, which are spread throughout the business,” Mr Lindley said.
“There is a single printer driver so the staff just print to the printer and then they can walk to any printer within the business and then that printout is pulled to them wherever they are.
“On top of that, we have implemented a secure form of printing so staff can swipe their ID card across the printer and that authorises the printing.”
Yarra Valley Water is the largest of Melbourne’s three retail metropolitan water utilities, serving more than 1.6 million people and 50,000 businesses.
Yarra Valley Water is the third water provider in Victoria to select Canon to manage its print environment.
