Leasing a copier

Copier lease options for Gold Coast businesses

If you are weighing up a lease on a photocopier or office printer, this page walks through how a lease works, what decides the monthly figure, which clauses deserve a careful read, and why most of our customers end up renting instead. You can lease or rent from $15 a week plus GST.

From $15 a week plus GST
Copiers and office printers
A lease or a rental, you choose
Every clause talked through

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What actually happens on a copier lease

Under a lease, the copier is bought by a finance company, and you repay it in monthly instalments over an agreed term, usually three to five years. Your monthly figure is set by the machine, how long the term is and your business itself. The lease decides what happens at the finish: the machine may go back to the finance company, be swapped for a newer model, or stay with you once a residual is paid.

In practice, most people who ask us about leasing settle on a rental, because the ending is simpler: move up to a newer machine, or hand it back. Should a lease still suit you or your accountant better, we will arrange one.

A lease suits some owners; we will show you whether it suits you.

Leasing an office printer instead

A printer lease works just as a copier lease does. Where an office never needs A3, an A4 multifunction printer on a lease may cover the lot. It prints, copies and scans, takes up less room, and the monthly payment is normally lower than a full size copier's.

Ask us to price a printer lease and a printer rental on the same model, so you can compare the two on paper. Our A4 office printers.

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Replacement warranty

A machine that fails is replaced. Through to the final month.

Any machine we look after on a service agreement comes under our replacement warranty, whatever its age and however you paid for it. Rented, leased, financed or bought outright, new or secondhand: if it fails, we replace it. Cover runs for the whole term of the agreement, through to its final month.

The maker's warranty on a new copier normally lasts 12 months and takes in the hardware; consumables are not part of it. Past that first year, your protection comes from the service agreement. Every detail of the replacement warranty is set down in your agreement.

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What decides a lease rate?

What the machine costs, how many months the term runs, and the approval itself. Our rental figures begin from $15 a week plus GST for selected machines. If you would like to compare, we can price the machine you like on 36, 48 and 60 month terms and show them to you together.

Five things to check before you sign a lease

The total of every payment across the term, not just the monthly amount.
The service charges, and any right to increase them while the lease runs.
Whether a minimum monthly charge applies.
Your choices at the finish, and how far ahead you must give notice.
What it would cost to end the lease early.

Go through the full agreement checklist.

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Lease or rent? See both figures first

Describe the work the machine has to do, or name the model you want. We will come back with two or three that suit, each priced in writing, and the decision stays with you.

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Compare a lease with a rental

We will price both on the machine you have in mind and set them next to each other. Every Gold Coast enquiry gets an answer the same business day it arrives.

Asked often

Leasing on the Gold Coast: what people ask

Is leasing possible on a refurbished copier?

It is, and so is rental. The older the machine, the shorter the term on offer, up to a limit of 60 months.

Leasing versus renting: what really changes?

Chiefly what happens at the finish, and how the paperwork is worded. When one of our rentals ends, you take a newer machine or give this one back. A lease, by contrast, might finish with the machine returned, upgraded or kept for a residual payment, depending on its own terms.

Can I lease an office printer?

Yes. An A4 multifunction printer goes on a lease or a rental just as an A3 copier does. There is more on printers further up this page.

What does a copier lease agreement cover?

It fixes how many months you pay, how much each payment is, what you may do with the machine at the finish and the price of ending sooner. How to read a copier lease agreement.