Print audits
What is a
print buying audit?
We understand that managing print across marketing, transactional mail, and internal documents can be complex, time-consuming, and expensive. Our Print Buying Audit is designed to give you full visibility over your entire print landscape, highlighting inefficiencies, consolidating suppliers, and ensuring every pound you spend is working harder.
Our Print Buying Audit is designed to give you full visibility over your entire print landscape, highlighting inefficiencies, consolidating suppliers, and ensuring every pound you spend is working harder. Delivered through a structured three-week process, our audit assesses your print spend, workflows, supplier performance, data security, and compliance practices. We work closely with key stakeholders across Procurement, Marketing, Operations, and Finance to understand your current approach and identify opportunities for cost reduction, improved governance, and smarter output.
How does it work?
This isn’t just about cutting costs, it’s about optimisation. We streamline approval processes, eliminate unnecessary volumes, and align your print with brand standards and regulatory requirements. Backed by data and industry expertise, we help you turn print from a fragmented overhead into a strategic, insight-led asset.
Whether you're preparing for a supplier review, embarking on a digital transformation, or exploring sustainability improvements, a CDS Print Buying Audit gives you the intelligence and confidence to move forward.
Start your audit journey with CDS Print Services. Smart print starts with better insight.
Print infrastructure assessment
Alongside our Print Buying Audit, CDS Print Services has partnered with Canon, global leaders in imaging and print technology, to offer a Print Infrastructure Assessment focused on your physical print environment.
This assessment provides a clear view of your current device estate, including printers, MFDs, managed print services, and digital workflows. Using Canon’s advanced auditing tools, we capture accurate, real-time data across your print fleet, highlighting usage patterns, performance gaps, and hidden costs.
If you’re managing a mixed fleet of devices or dealing with fragmented support, this service helps you take back control. We identify where improvements can be made, from reducing energy consumption and simplifying maintenance to consolidating devices and improving security.
Think of it as a health check for your print infrastructure, delivering the insight needed to streamline operations, reduce waste, and futureproof your environment.
Sound like something your business needs? Let’s talk. Print smarter with Canon and CDS Print Services.
Benefits of print audits
60% of businesses have experienced at least one print-related data breach. A print audit can lead to reduced risk (and risk of a fine).
Cut waste, save time, money and avoid data breaches.
Unmanaged print environments often account for 1% - 3% of total annual revenue which can be uncovered through the print infrastructure assessment.
Average reduction of printing costs following a print buying audit is between 20%-30%.
Secure print and user systems introduced post-audit can reduce unnecessary print jobs by 20% - 50%.
