The Copier Lease Trap Most Businesses Never See Coming

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Are you having issues setting up your new HP+ printer/MFP (Models M209dwe, M234dwe, M234sdwe, 3001dwe, 4001ne, 4001dne, 4101fdne, 4101fdwe)? When you purchased your machine, you may not have realized that any HP printer models that end with an “e” are HP+ devices that have specific requirements for you to use them.

Paying a high amount each year for a fixed traditional contract may not make sense if you do not print that much, but at the same time, you don’t want to be stuck with a large, unanticipated repair bill. When your printer goes down, you need it repaired quickly so you can get your work done!

Yesterday HP released firmware to address critical threats that cover popular LaserJet printer & MFP models. The threats have CVSS scores of 7.5, 8.4, and 9.8. If these patches are not applied, you may be leaving your printers vulnerable to information disclosure, denial of service, or remote code execution.

Follow-Me Print allows users to send a print job to a central queue and then walk up to any printer and release their job. Here are some reasons to consider implementing this:

If your company has put a flexible work policy in place, you will likely find that you’ve got more space than people more often than not. You are also probably having difficulty understanding who is coming to the office and how often, which makes it hard for facilities and IT teams to ensure sufficient resources are available at the office. You’re asking yourself questions like:

Security this, password that, and they want 14 characters with two symbols?!? In the modern 21st century, crime and theft have shifted, but a lot of people are approaching the problem with logic from more than a decade ago. We can likely all agree that modern prevention is annoying. Remembering 24 different passwords, four PIN numbers, having to install updates all the time (some of which break what you use daily), this new regulation, that new requirement – it’s frustrating. It’s funny, though, how it’s not at all frustrating or inconvenient to most of us to remember the code for the door, the code for the alarm panel next to the door, the secret password to tell the alarm company when you don’t get out in time and the alarm goes off, the passcode to our phone, the front-door keypad lock at home, the garage code, the other garage code… You get the idea.