Organisational Tips for Mechanics

Last Updated on June 16, 2020 by Christian Ralph

In a garage with umpteen spare parts, tools and car manuals hanging around, organisation can be a hard thing to get a handle on.

However, if you let your organisation slip it can quickly start to lead to deeper problems such as unhappy customers or a loss in profit.

Therefore, the last thing you want to see is paperwork begin to pile up around the place as well.

Luckily, modern office technology options can easily be integrated into your garage to start getting the place into order. An example of this are OKI printers, which offer a range of services to help bring your paperwork up-to-date.

Here a few pointers to help get your repairs business organised.

Receipts

Customers are more likely to lose small scraps of paper, as they can easily be mistaken for rubbish.

Therefore, it’s important to make your receipts look professional with a printed out slip. These can then be filed away neatly for customer reference, making any follow-ups flow much more smoothly, or be easily found for when you fill in your self-assessment.

Invoices

When it comes to invoices for parts, the OKI B432 mono laser printer is ideal with its fast-warm up times, high speed processor and large memory.

It can power through vast numbers of print jobs and offers low energy-consumption. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about switching the machine off with greasy hands, and you can save your energy output for powering your tools!

Flyers

So bogged down with MOTs and services that you can’t find the time to promote your offers and deals?

An OKI laser printer can help there too, with its ability to print banners up to 1.3m long. These are the perfect promotion to put outside your garage and will have new customers flocking in.

Along with this, its 1200 x 1200 DPI means that OKI can also cater for A5 paper, ideal for flyers and leaflets to put through local doors or leave on shop counters.

Customer-facing documents

The OKI Microline 5791eco A4 Mono Dot Matrix Printer allows you to print continuous forms and provides high productivity levels when printing customer-facing documents. This includes receipts, invoices and dispatch notes.

Alongside the professional appearance of these print-outs, the machine can reach speeds of 576 characters per second, so your customers certainly won’t be standing around waiting!

Optional push and pull tractor feed units are available to allow the loading of two different media types simultaneously, removing the need for you to do this manually. Just another reason why dot matrix printers are an all-round good investment!

As you can see, there is no longer any excuse for you to get lost in a sea of torn-up paper and bulging files, the right printer investment will have you cleared up in no time.

If you want to discuss what options are available to you, or need any extra information before you buy then don’t hesitate to give our friendly team of printer experts a call today.