Lea MalagonIndependent copier & printer broker · New Jersey

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Copier leasing in New Brunswick, NJ

The Middlesex County seat, dominated by Rutgers and by the hospital complex around Robert Wood Johnson. That combination makes it an unusually institutional office market for a city of its size.

What offices in New Brunswick are actually printing

The commercial base here leans toward higher education, healthcare, research administration and county government, concentrated around downtown, the Rutgers campuses and the hospital district.

Institutional buyers usually have to buy through a co-operative or a bid process rather than a straight quote, which changes the whole procurement path. Worth establishing which vehicle applies before anyone talks about equipment.

Before you sign anything

Three things are worth doing in this order, and none of them require talking to me:

  1. Work out your true cost per page. The monthly payment is not the cost. Overage and a separately billed service charge usually account for a meaningful share of the bill, and nobody quotes the blended figure.
  2. Find your notice deadline. Most agreements renew automatically unless written notice lands in a window that shuts months before the term ends. This is the single most expensive thing to get wrong.
  3. Understand what a buyout figure contains. It is three or four separate things, and they are not equally negotiable.

Why go through a broker rather than straight to a dealer?

A dealer rep carries a quota and one line card. I don’t carry a quota, and my job is to size the machine to your actual volume, negotiate the term and the click rate, and tell you when the deal in front of you is a bad one — including when the right answer is to keep what you already have.

I’m not an authorised dealer for any manufacturer. I place orders through dealers who are, and they handle install and service. What you get from me is the scoping, the negotiating and someone who reads the contract on your side of the table.