Easy money: How to save big money on printing costs  Brian
Henderson is director of federal consulting at Lexmark
Government Solutions.  The only buzzword in federal government
bigger than “deficit reduction” is “spending cuts,” and there is
little debate that federal agencies make unnecessary
expenditures each year. The good news is that agencies can
achieve $1 billion in cost reductions each year without cutting
any programs. Those savings can be achieved by using less paper
and more actively overseeing document management functions —
that is, by improving the efficiency of printing, copying,
faxing, scanning and related expenditures.  It might be hard to
believe that a $1 billion savings is possible with a simple
reorganization of agency printing processes, but it is. What’s
the holdup? The challenge begins with the fact that agencies are
typically unaware of how much they spend on these functions.
They have no one in a position of responsibility tracking total
dollars spent or coordinating and streamlinin