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Would You Rather Own It?

We sell the same Canon machines we lease, delivered, installed and covered by a 30-day warranty. Most offices are better off leasing, and we will show you why. Some genuinely are not.

Capital or operating

The Real Question Is Not Price. It Is Which Budget It Comes Out Of.

Buying is a capital expense: one outlay, an asset on the books, depreciating. Leasing is an operating expense: one monthly line, nothing capitalized. Both are legitimate. They just put the cost in different places, and most finance teams already know which one they prefer.

Buying it

One capital outlay
Paid once, up front. It becomes an asset on your balance sheet and depreciates from there.
You own it outright
No monthly equipment cost, and nobody can take it back.
30 days of warranty
After that, service is a separate agreement or a per-visit bill.
Toner and parts are yours
Ordered, tracked and paid for by you, for the life of the machine.
You carry obsolescence
If your volume outgrows it in year three, that is your problem to solve and to fund.
You handle disposal
Including wiping the hard drive when it eventually leaves.

Leasing it

No capital outlay
From $150 a month, treated as an operating expense.
Everything is in the rate
Toner, parts, labor, every service call and preventive maintenance.
Obsolescence is ours
Outgrow the machine and we swap it, at no charge, whenever you like.
Thirty days' notice to leave
No term, no penalty and no buyout figure.
Nothing to dispose of
The machine goes back to us, drive wiped on request, with written confirmation.

See what leasing costs →

The part people underestimate. The purchase price is the smallest recurring cost of owning a copier. Toner, parts, labor and service carry on for as long as the machine does, whichever way you acquire it. Buying takes the equipment out of your monthly number and leaves everything else in, then adds obsolescence and disposal. That is why we lease most of the machines we place, and why we will usually say so.
When buying wins

Four Cases Where We Would Tell You to Buy.

We would rather place the right thing than the profitable thing, because the second one comes back. These are the cases where ownership genuinely makes more sense.

Your volume is low and steady

The all-inclusive rate is priced around a machine that gets used. If yours prints modestly and is largely left alone, you may spend less owning it than paying for service you never call on.

You have capital that has to be spent

Grant funding, an approved capital budget, or a year-end position where a capital purchase is easier to authorize than a new recurring line. This is the most common reason our buyers buy.

Your accountant wants the asset on the books

Some organizations prefer to capitalize equipment rather than carry another operating expense. The tax treatment of the two is genuinely different and your accountant, not us, is the one to ask.

You intend to keep it a long time

If the plan is seven or ten years with the same machine and the same volume, ownership has time to pay off. That is a real scenario, just a rarer one than people expect.

What a purchase includes

Delivered, Installed and Warrantied for 30 Days.

1

Pick the Machine

Anything in our range. The same certified Canon equipment we lease, not a separate budget line of stripped-down models.

2

Delivery and Installation

Brought in, set up, networked and tested by our own technicians, with your staff shown how to use it. Nothing is due until it is in and working.

3

30-Day Warranty

Thirty days from installation. If something is wrong with the machine in that window, we put it right.

4

Then a Service Agreement

Optional, and strongly recommended. Once the warranty ends, service is either an agreement or a bill per visit.

Our equipment is certified refurbished. Every machine is professionally inspected, reconditioned and tested before it leaves us, and none of our equipment is new. We say so here because you are buying an asset and it is yours to know. Certified is our own standard rather than a third party's, so the fair question is why you should take our word for it. You should not have to. Nothing is due up front. Payment falls due once the machine is delivered and installed, by which point you have seen the print quality and the condition of the machine for yourself. If it is not what you expected, you have not paid for it.
After the warranty

Owning the Machine Is Not the Same as Maintaining It.

A copier is a mechanical device with consumable parts. Thirty days covers whether it arrived in good order. It does not cover the next five years of fusers, rollers, feeders and drums, all of which wear out on a schedule.

A Service Agreement

Parts, labor and preventive maintenance on equipment you own, on the same next-business-day response as our leased fleet. One predictable figure instead of an invoice every time something jams.

Or Pay per Visit

We will come out and fix it either way. It is a flat service rate plus parts, and it is the more expensive route for anything past the occasional call.

Toner Separately

Once you own the machine, consumables are yours to buy. We supply genuine Canon toner, or you can source it anywhere. It is worth pricing before you decide.

We service customer-owned machines from every major brand, whether we sold them or not.See how service works.

Chicagoland only

We Only Sell What We Can Service.

We do not ship copiers around the country. Everything we sell goes to a business inside our Chicagoland service area, because a machine our technicians cannot drive to is a machine we cannot stand behind. If you are outside 6 counties of us, we are the wrong supplier and we will say so on the first call.

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The lineup

The Same Machines, Whichever Way You Take Them.

Every series we lease is available to buy. Tell us your monthly volume and we will spec the machine first, then price it both ways so you can compare like for like.

Black & White

Mono multifunction copiers from 25 to 105 pages per minute.

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Color

Full-color output for client-facing work, compact through production volume.

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Trading One In?

We buy equipment outright and credit trade-ins against whatever replaces it.

What yours is worth →
Purchase pricing is quoted per machine. It depends on the model, the finishing options and what is in stock, so there is no list price to publish. Ask and we will quote the purchase and the lease side by side, with the five-year cost of each, and you can decide from real numbers rather than from this page.
Both numbers, no obligation

Get It Priced Both Ways.

Tell us what you print and where you are. We will quote the purchase, quote the lease, and show you what each costs over five years.

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