A new innovation that enables mobility for workshop workers and estimators.
Fenderbender.com reported on a new innovation which uses rechargeable mobile printers as part of a mobile workshop table.
Kelly Beaton, the author of the article explains that the Inspiration came from Scott Britt, Director of IT and optimisation for MSO. He built a new “three-tiered metal carts that could hold a laptop and a printer” which replaces the heavier and costlier older version MSO was using. In 2015 Britt added a rechargeable Brother thermal printer after noticing “that bulky laser printers tended to bounce around on Classic Collision’s mobile carts.”
The article points out that the rechargeable printers on the mobile workshop tables help Classic Collision’s efficiency in many ways. Britt explained to Fenderbender.com: “They lessen the possibility for technological failure on the mobile carts.” This had been difficult with the use of batteries. The rechargeable mobile printers simply charge overnight and power inverters.
The article points out that “more than anything, Britt’s modified printer setup lets estimators move their mobile printer carts around the shop floor with greater ease.”
Britt explained the printer set up to Beaton as “It’s pretty much just one piece, and off you go, it makes us completely mobile. We can go outside and write estimates, we can go all over the shop and write estimates.”
He added: “Now we’re able to put dedicated [employees] out in the shop with those carts who can write supplements, who can write an estimate if need be, and they can print it right there. Just makes life a lot easier.”