BLI Awards Equitrac Express its Prestigious Five Star Rating
Print & cost management solution for the education market currently on 60 percent of the top 10 college & university campuses in the world
Plantation, FL - March 31, 2009 -- Equitrac Corporation, a print and cost management solutions provider, is pleased to announce that Equitrac Express® has received a Five Star rating from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. Equitrac Express 4 is the most recent version of the market-leading print management and cost recovery solution for colleges, universities, K-12 schools and their libraries.
In its evaluation of Equitrac Express, BLI cited several key reasons for awarding its highest rating to the print and cost management solution:
- Ability to integrate in to a heterogeneous print environment
- Supports an array of third party academic campus card payment systems
- Highly customizable and scalable to meet the needs of any size organization
- Ability to integrate in to a heterogeneous print environment and with an array of third party academic campus card payment systems
- Flexible deployment options with embedded versions for control panel operations with Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and other MFPs as well as versions that use an external terminal
- Comprehensive reporting capabilities
- Ease of use
- Depth of experience and long standing position as a leader in the print management and cost recovery solutions market
"Based on our review, BLI has no hesitation recommending Equitrac Express 4 to educational organizations seeking a print management and cost recovery solution," said Daria Hoffman, managing editor, BLI.
"Campuses around the world are seeking ways to control print costs and institute measures that will reduce paper and toner waste, which is a daunting problem on some campuses. Equitrac Express holds students, teachers and staff accountable for print jobs sent to a printer, automatically deletes abandoned documents in the print queue and applies routing rules so that documents are not unnecessarily printed on a costly color printer. This is an excellent solution that delivers speedy ROI."
In its report, BLI noted that Equitrac Express is currently used on 60 percent of the top 10 college and university campuses in the world. Equitrac Express is also used within K-12 school districts.
"Controlling print costs is an ongoing challenge and a budget imperative in nearly every school district," said Jeffrey S. Janover, director of technology, Wall Township Public School in Wall, New Jersey. "Equitrac Express has enabled Wall Township to efficiently and cost effectively centralize the management of our print network district-wide. Additionally, we have been able to eliminate 350 desktop printers which have significantly reduced the number of calls to the Help Desk and has freed up valuable resources. This is a killer app that has already delivered over $60,000 in savings in its first year at Wall Township."
"We are absolutely delighted to have yet another Equitrac solution awarded the Buyers Lab Five Star rating," said Michael Rich, president and CEO of Equitrac. Last Fall, BLI awarded it Five Star rating and "Pick" award to Equitrac Professional. "Equitrac print and cost management solutions continue to be the de facto standard in our key markets."
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