One dealership, one month, paperless by choice
A Dealertrack dealership turned on PrintSent across Parts, the Business Office, and Service. These are the numbers from its first full 30 days, taken from the in-portal savings dashboard. The dealer is kept anonymous, and every figure below is measured, not projected, except the annual pace.
Real savings in one month
$1,190
At one Dealertrack dealership — on pace for $14,275/yr
32.0 hrs
Time Saved
959
Documents
1,768
Pages Saved
333
Emails Sent
One month of actual usage at a Dealertrack dealership — $0.04/page in print costs avoided, plus ~2.0 min/document of staff time (walk + scan) at $35/hr. Conservative: excludes printer hardware, leases, service contracts, shredding & postage — the savings a dealership unlocks going paperless.
Department by department
Parts
480 pages · 440 print jobs
$533
The store's heaviest department, counter and warehouse combined.
Business Office
1,026 pages · 379 print jobs
$483
Statements, invoices, and receipts, mostly printed only to be scanned.
Service
240 pages · 123 print jobs
$153
Repair orders and receipts across two service locations, and growing.
Department figures are estimated 30-day savings. The store total also includes minor admin printing not broken out here.
“I used to print Tech Hard Cards, walk to the New Car department to scan them on the better scanner, then email myself the PDF to forward to customers. Now I print from Dealertrack and the branded PDF just appears in our PrintSent portal. I forward it to customers without leaving my desk. I use it every day.”
“It saves me a dozen trips a day, from my desk to the printer, then to the scanner, just to email a vendor invoice. When vendors ask for copies at month-end, I just open the PDF in the portal and forward it. Huge time saver!”
Savings are estimated conservatively at $0.04 per page in avoided print cost, plus about 2.0 minutes of staff time per document (the walk to the printer and scanner) valued at $35 an hour. Document, page, and email counts are the actual figures the PrintSent dashboard recorded over the 30 days. The annual figure is the monthly result at the same pace, not a promise.
The estimate leaves out printer hardware, leases, service contracts, shredding, and postage, so a dealership's real total is usually higher than what is shown here. Individual results vary with print volume, staffing, and which forms a store chooses to keep on paper.
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