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.
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.
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.
Delivered, Installed and Warrantied for 30 Days.
Pick the Machine
Anything in our range. The same certified Canon equipment we lease, not a separate budget line of stripped-down models.
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.
30-Day Warranty
Thirty days from installation. If something is wrong with the machine in that window, we put it right.
Then a Service Agreement
Optional, and strongly recommended. Once the warranty ends, service is either an agreement or a bill per visit.
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.
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.
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.
Trading One In?
We buy equipment outright and credit trade-ins against whatever replaces it.
What yours is worth →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.