What is BYOD? Bring your own device, or BYOD, is a rising trend among all sorts of organisations these days. And it’s not going to go away. In fact, you may already be implementing it already without realizing it. People checking work emails on their private mobiles or tablets? Remote workers using their own laptops to check work webmail or with VPN access?  That’s all BYOD. In many ways, the rise of BYOD was inevitable. Increased personal computing power and the rise of the smartphone and tablets is part of the answer. The other aspect is how mobile we are these days, and the need to connect wherever we are, be it …

So now we know how printers are designed to bleed you dry, it’s time to start saving money on your printer costs. Forgive me, but I am going to assume that you are already finding ways to avoid printing as much as possible so these tips are designed to save you money on those times you really do need to print. What’s the first step? No matter the size of your organisation, the first step is to know how much you are spending already. Larger charities probably already have this at their fingertips. By which I mean they can send an email to their finance/accounts department, and after an audible …

Back in 2010 you may remember that the police, acting on a tip-off from Saudi intelligence, found a printer at East Midlands airport, sent from Yemen and destined for the US, packed with explosives. My first reaction was – as if printers weren’t evil enough already. They have certainly come along way in the past ten years alone, but I bet the average office manager still spends a good few hours a year pulling out trapped paper, and silently cursing whoever replaced the  ink cartridges without telling anyone they had used the last one. Printers are an interesting example of two economic and marketing phenomena. Both designed to make you …