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PrintSent vs Building Your Own Solution
A capable IT team could, in theory, stand up a Lexmark print server, capture the stream, render PDFs, and wire up email routing. The question is whether it's worth building and owning. Here's how a DIY approach compares to PrintSent.
PrintSent
Building Your Own Solution
Time to running
Under 30 minutes from unboxing
Days to weeks of build, test, and troubleshooting
Lexmark emulation
Built in and proven against Dealertrack
You research and implement the emulation yourself
Logo & format fidelity
Pixel-perfect capture, handled for you
You own the rendering pipeline and its edge cases
Email routing
Per-document routing, configured in minutes
Custom delivery logic to build and maintain
Security
Encrypted transit, temporary caching, secure links, no PII in emails
You design and own every security control
Maintenance & uptime
Maintained for you, with support
Your team owns patches, breakage, and the pager
Multi-location
Manage every rooftop from one login
Replicate and maintain your stack per site
Total cost
Flat monthly price, everything included
Build time, ongoing engineering, and opportunity cost
The Bottom Line
What it comes down to
Building it yourself is possible, but the real cost isn't the first version — it's owning the Lexmark emulation, PDF fidelity, security, and uptime indefinitely, across every location.
PrintSent delivers a proven, supported, pre-configured device for a flat monthly price, so your team ships it in 30 minutes and never owns the maintenance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions
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