Have you been jealous of that larger church down the road who always seems to put out the best looking promotional materials? I mean, what match are you for that pizzaz? Well, first of all, you should be judging your ministry by the amount of work the Holy Spirit is doing through you, not by the quality of your printings. Secondly, if you do want to look a little more up to date and are spending thousands on color ink jet cartridges from printing 500VBS brochures, you may want to look into Xerox’ program.

Now notice that the title of this entry calls for a free “color printer” not a free lifetime supply of color printing. There is a catch. When you sign up with them, you’ll get the free printer, solid ink (see below) to get you started, free shipment, and a 3 year service agreement. From then on, you only have to print out at least 2,000 pages per month to stay with the program and purchase supplies from them. All in all, it would probably be a little bit of an increase from your normal printing spending, but you get high quality printing and a free printer out of the deal.

The technology here is not laser or ink jet. It is called solid ink and is like a wax cube that you put in the printer. A friend of mine used this program with his church and seemed pretty pleased with it. The one drawback he suggested was the inability to write ON the ink, as it was sort of waxy. It did not rub off, however, it did not allow ink from pens to be used on it. Most people don’t write on colored areas of brochures anyway, so this is probably not a big concern. Also, the printer can easily be networked so all your staff friends can use it!

Have you had some experience with this program? If so leave comments so that others can get a feel for its quality or lack thereof.

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