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Compare printer lease quotes in Wigan
Nearly one business in five in the borough is in construction, and a builder’s printing does not look like an office’s: drawings in the office, method statements on site, and work that comes in waves. Comparing up to 4 quotes on one specification shows you which suppliers can handle that, and what it costs from each.
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Tell us once
A minute on the form: what you print, roughly how much, and your postcode.
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Suppliers quote
Up to 4 suppliers that cover your area quote on the same specification.
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You choose
Compare the quotes side by side and pick one, or none. It is free and there is no obligation.
Why comparing pays
Lease quotes rarely line up on their own. One supplier offers a lower monthly payment with a higher cost per page; another a longer term, or a service plan that leaves out toner. Asking every supplier to quote on the same specification is what makes the prices comparable, and the printer lease calculator gives you a ballpark to measure them against.
What to compare in Wigan
- Lease, rent or a mix. Compare a lease for the office with a short rental for each site, rather than one long agreement for everything.
- A3 in the office, A4 on site. Check each quote matches the right machine to each place, and says what it costs to move one.
- The minimum monthly charge. When work is quiet, a high minimum means paying for pages you never print.
- Cover for your actual postcode. The borough spans WN, WA3, M29 and M46. Make sure the supplier’s engineers cover yours.
- Wide-format, if you need it. If you print A1 or A0 drawings, compare the plotter’s running costs as well as the copier’s.
The borough in figures
A borough of builders, hauliers and growing firms
The ONS counts 9,265 businesses across the borough of Wigan. Of those, 1,785 are in construction: 19.3%, compared with 14.1% across the UK. Transport and storage (6.5%, against 4.3%) and the motor trades (4.8%, against 3.0%) are also bigger here than nationally, which fits a borough with the M6 and M58 running along its western edge.
The borough also has a slightly larger share of firms that have grown beyond a handful of people: 1,050 businesses employ between 10 and 249 staff, 11.3% of the total, against 10.4% across the UK. Among them, health and care (125), hospitality (125) and manufacturing (120) are the biggest groups. Those are the businesses most likely to be leasing an office copier for the first time, or replacing one.
So a quote that works for a town-centre office will not always work for a contractor in Standish or a depot near the motorway. That is why our form asks what you print and where, before any supplier quotes.
On site
A printer for the site cabin
Plenty of contractors around Wigan need printing on site as well as in the office: method statements and risk assessments, permits, inductions, delivery paperwork and revised drawings. Driving back to the office to print them wastes a morning, so a small machine in the cabin often pays for itself. But a site is not an office, and the agreement needs to reflect that.
Match the agreement to the project
A five-year lease for a nine-month job makes no sense. For a single project, a printer rental with a short minimum period is usually better, even though it costs more each month. If you always have a site running, a lease on a machine that moves from job to job can work, as long as the agreement allows it.
Moving it between sites
Most agreements name the address where the machine is kept, and moving it without permission can breach the terms. Tell suppliers you will move it, ask who does the move and what it costs, and get that written into the agreement.
Power and connection
A small A4 laser printer is happiest on a steady mains supply. If the cabin runs from a generator, tell the supplier. Without broadband, the machine can print from a laptop directly or join the network through a mobile router; say which when you ask for quotes.
Insurance and theft
You are normally responsible for insuring a leased machine wherever it is. Check your policy covers leased equipment on site, including theft from a cabin, before the machine arrives, not after.
Keep the site machine simple. An A4 mono printer that scans is enough for most cabins; drawings can be printed in the office and brought out, or viewed on a tablet. A simpler machine also means fewer things to go wrong, and an engineer visit to a site on the edge of the borough is slower than one to the town centre.
Drawings
An A3 copier or a wide-format plotter?
The largest paper an office copier takes is A3. That is enough for marked-up drawings, schedules and most site plans printed to scale on a sheet that size. Architects, engineers and contractors who need full-size drawings at A1 or A0 need a wide-format printer, often called a plotter, which is a separate machine with its own agreement.
The two are priced differently. A copier’s service agreement charges per page, mono or colour. A plotter is usually charged for ink and the large rolls of paper it uses, so a heavily coloured drawing costs much more than a line drawing of the same size. Ask suppliers to show the running cost of a typical drawing, not just the monthly rental.
Scanning matters just as much. Many A3 copiers scan marked-up drawings straight to email or a shared folder, which is how most site changes now get back to the office. Large-format scanning is a separate feature, so ask for it if you need to scan full-size drawings.
| A3 office copier | Wide-format plotter | |
|---|---|---|
| Largest size | A3 | A1 or A0, on rolls |
| Running cost | A price per mono and colour page | Ink and paper, varying with coverage |
| Also does | Copying, scanning and everyday office printing | Drawings and posters; scanning only if specified |
| Best for | Every office | Firms printing full-size drawings every week |
A worked example
A Wigan contractor’s office and one site
Take a contractor with an office of about a dozen people printing 2,500 pages a month on an A3 colour copier, half of it in colour, plus one site cabin printing around 500 mono pages a month. Our printer lease calculator puts the office machine at about £69 a month over 60 months, including service and toner. A small A4 mono machine for the cabin on a 36-month term comes to about £41 a month.
If the office printed only in mono, the copier would come to about £49 a month. These are planning figures from our calculator, not quotes, but they show the same lesson as in most offices: colour pages cost far more than mono, so be realistic about how much you print in colour.
The cabin figure assumes the machine moves from job to job. If projects are occasional, do the sum the other way: a nine-month job on a 36-month lease leaves 27 payments after the site closes, with nowhere for the machine to go. A rental costs more each month but stops when you hand it back. If you always have at least one site running, the lease usually wins; if you do not, the rental does. Ask suppliers to quote both, and compare them over the length of your typical project rather than per month.
Office A3, half colour, 60 months
£69
Office A3, mono only
£49
Site cabin A4 mono, 36 months
£41
Busy and quiet months
When work comes in waves: minimum charges
Construction, haulage and seasonal trades rarely print the same amount every month. A tender or a new contract can double the printing for a few weeks; a quiet spell can halve it. That matters because many service agreements include a minimum monthly charge: a set number of pages you pay for whether you print them or not.
Ask every supplier three things. What is the minimum, if there is one, and is it set for your quietest months? Are pages billed monthly or quarterly, because a quarterly bill smooths out a busy month against a quiet one? And if you have more than one machine, can their volumes be pooled, so a busy office and a quiet cabin balance each other out?
A low monthly rental with a high minimum page commitment can cost more over a year than a slightly higher rental with no minimum at all. Put each quote’s minimum next to its rental before you compare them.
Near the motorways
Printing round the clock: depots and yards
Transport and storage firms make up 6.5% of businesses in the borough, half as much again as the UK share. A depot near the M6 or M58 can print delivery notes, manifests, collection sheets and driver paperwork at five in the morning and again at ten at night, and a printer that jams before the first trucks leave holds up the whole day.
That changes what to compare. Standard service agreements usually cover working hours on weekdays, so a fault at 6am may wait until mid-morning. If your operation runs early, late or at weekends, ask each supplier what extended cover costs, or whether a second, cheaper machine as a backup works out better than paying for faster response.
Paper capacity matters as much as speed. A machine with large paper trays, or an extra high-capacity drawer, means nobody is refilling it in the middle of the morning rush. Ask for a mono machine sized for your peak hour rather than your daily average, and check how toner is delivered: automatically when the machine reports it is low, or only when someone remembers to order it.
Labels, tickets and handheld delivery devices print on different equipment, so they are not part of a copier lease. If you want those quoted too, mention it, but compare them separately.
Other Wigan firms
Practices, care homes and workshops
Care homes and practices
Care plans and patient letters that must stay private. Secure release at the machine, and a written promise on how data is wiped at the end.
Manufacturers
Quotes and drawings in the office, job sheets near the works. Often two machines, quoted together, with cover for both.
Across the borough
Seven towns, four postcode areas
The borough is much more than the town of Wigan. It runs across WN, WA3, M29 and M46 postcodes, and some suppliers cover one side of it from a different base than the other. We match you by your actual postcode, so the engineer who is promised can actually reach you.
WN1 and WN3
Wigan town centre
The town centre, the Wigan Pier quarter and the Douglas side of town, out to Robin Park.
WN5 and WN6
Orrell, Pemberton and Standish
The west and north of the borough, near the M6 and M58.
WN2
Hindley, Ince and Aspull
East of the town centre, up towards Haigh Woodland Park.
WN4
Ashton-in-Makerfield
The south-west of the borough, next to the M6.
WN7
Leigh
The borough’s second town, with Leigh Spinners Mill and the Leigh West and Leigh South wards.
M46 and M29
Atherton, Tyldesley and Astley
The eastern towns, on Manchester postcodes.
WA3
Golborne and Lowton
The southern edge of the borough, on Warrington postcodes.
For free help with growing a business, the GC Business Growth Hub covers all ten Greater Manchester boroughs, this one included.
Questions
Printer leasing in Wigan: your questions
More on printer leasing, printer rental and managed print in the North West, or see all the areas we cover.
Can we move a leased printer from one site to another?
Only with the agreement of the supplier and the finance company, because the agreement usually names the address where the machine is kept. If you will move it between projects, say so up front and get it written into the agreement.
Can we rent a printer just for a six-month project?
Yes. A rental with a short minimum period usually suits a single project better than a lease. It costs more per month, but you can hand it back when the job finishes.
Will an office copier print A1 or A0 drawings?
No. Office copiers go up to A3. Larger drawings need a wide-format printer, which is a separate machine with its own costs. Ask for both to be quoted together if you need them.
Can a printer in a site cabin work without broadband?
Yes. It can print from a laptop over a direct connection, or join the network through a mobile router. Tell suppliers how the cabin is connected so they can set it up properly.
Who insures a leased printer in a site cabin?
Usually you do. Most agreements make you responsible for insuring the machine wherever it is. Check your policy covers leased equipment on site, including theft from the cabin.
What if our printing drops when work is quiet?
Look at the minimum monthly charge. If you pay for a set number of pages whether you print them or not, make sure it is set for your quiet months, not your busiest.
Do you cover Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley?
Yes. The borough runs across WN, WA3, M29 and M46 postcodes, and we match you with suppliers that cover your actual postcode, not just the town name.
Can a sole trader or small builder lease a printer?
Yes. The finance company will check the business and the owner before approving it. If you print only occasionally, a good desktop printer may be the cheaper answer, and we will say so.
Is there free business support in Wigan?
The GC Business Growth Hub covers every Greater Manchester borough, including Wigan, with funded support for start-ups and growing firms.
How many quotes will I get?
Up to four, from suppliers that cover your postcode, each pricing the same specification so you can compare them side by side.