Tatton Court,
about us
Sharples Group has been established in Warrington for over 35 years, building an excellent reputation for outstanding customer service, high quality products and flexible purchase, leasing and rental options.
"Tomorrow's technology today"
Sharples Group is an award-winning independent office equipment company which has been established in Warrington since 1977.
Sharples Group believe that implementing the right office system can be an important factor in the success of your business and aim to find the right product to suit your needs, at the right price. Through careful integration and management of these systems, Sharples Group can have a considerable positive impact on your business.
The team at Sharples Group provide businesses with practical advice on a range of office equipment including scanners, printers and photocopiers from top name brands including Kodak, Ricoh, Oki, Kyocera and Toshiba. Sharples Group provide office equipment to buy, lease or rent, offering a flexible solution to suit your business needs.
In recognition of their superior service and high quality products, Sharples Group are an official Lexmark Value Partner, a Toshiba Top 5 UK Re-seller and won the OKI Dealer of the Year award for the last three years.
Products
Many business owners simply do not know how much they print and what it costs, which is why Sharples Group will carry out a detailed Print Audit (worth £500) for free. The audit will tell you how, when and how much you print, as well as offering practical advice on how to lower your costs, save time and money.
Companies who act on the audit's recommendations typically save over 50% on document production and Sharples Group can provide with a huge range of products to suit your business needs, which include:
- Copiers
- Printers
- Scanners
- Fax Machines
- Multi-functional Devices
- Reconditioned Machines
- Wide Format Copiers, Printers and Scanners
Service and Support
Sharples Group recognise that service support must be available when you need it and provided by a supplier who understands the individual needs of your business.
The Sharples Group support service includes:
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Printer Drivers
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Remote Assistance
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Servicing and Repair
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Managed Print Services
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Logging a meter reading
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Preventative Maintenance
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Total Managed Print - Oki
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Logging a service/ support call
Good support is vital to prevent or effectively deal with print downtime and the productivity problems that can follow, which is why Sharples Group will work closely in partnership with you to create a support model that matches your requirements.
Document Management
Sharples Group can help you to manage your documents more efficiently for less than £5 per day, so overflowing filing cabinets, mountains of paperwork on your desk or missing documents will be a thing of the past.
Sharples Group can implement an Electronic Document Management (EDM) system which converts your paper documents into electronic files that can be easily stored, retrieved, distributed or put into a work flow system.
About Sharples Group
Sharples Group was first established in 1977 by Bill Sharples and the business soon grew from strength to strength, becoming the largest independent supplier of office equipment in the area.
After Bill retired in 2005 the business was taken over by long-term employees Dave Griffiths and Mark Brocklehurst, who have successfully maintained the company's excellent reputation for high quality products and outstanding customer service.
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latest reviews
I know exactly what it costs me to print, I know who is doing the printing, and which cost centre I can allocate those costs too, resulting in better management and control of costs, improved productivity and quality of output. Paul Crudge - Managing Director, Pro-Networks
We now have a single managed point for all network printing with high quality full colour capability making it an essential and cost effective marketing resource. There is no need to have pre-printed literature, simply create, print and use, perfect! This has had a massive impact on improving productivity and reducing costs across the whole business. Wayne Lester - Sales Director, Lake Technologies
We now have a facility that matches our business needs and budget, we are saving money on print and copying and are able to provide a better service to our clients through the ability to scan and send proofs by email. The printing is a higher quality and far quicker than our previous printer and we now have a photocopier that the whole business can use. We have been extremely impressed with the service Sharples Group has provided to us, but more than this they have proved that they don't just sell and walk away, their back-up service is superb, they respond quickly to any problems we have and provide the comfort that they are just at the end of a phone line and we can (and do) highly recommend them to any business. Pete Hackin - Silk Group
We rely heavily on printers throughout the day and our work would be very difficult without them. If our printers are not working to maximum potential nor is our business, this impacts on other tasks and causes delays and frustration. Sharples Group has worked with us to make sure we have the right equipment and service and maintenance contracts in place, keeping us operational and taking away the daily worry and risk to our business. By regular maintenance and support Sharples Group make sure the printers are delivering the accuracy of the colour output that our work demands. The colour needs to be precise to ensure that the proofs we print, match as closely as possible to the quality we are looking to achieve with the final product. Stephen Ironmonger - CGP
A few years ago, whenever we had a printer jam one of my colleagues would leap into action to take on the challenge of removing the shreds of paper. Unfortunately, Jacky's other role was saving clients substantial amounts of money by ensuring their tax affairs were in good order. We persuaded Jacky to hang up his cape and concentrate on tax matters and instead passed the task to our IT Department. Later, at Sharples Group suggestion, we undertook a FREE print audit and found that not only did we have an incredibly high number of printers, but these printers churned out some 14,000 prints per month. Most of the printers were attached to desktop machines, were one-off purchases and required many types of toner cartridges. I suppose that we were a little cynical at first, not wanting to believe that we could indeed make the savings Sharples were suggesting. However, one year later I believe that we have not only reduced our printing bill but that we have also made substantial savings in the amount of time spent dealing with printer issues. You tend not to notice when something is working well. It was only when one of my colleagues temporarily directed traffic away from a printer in one office that I thought about the fact that our team could use the seven other printers located around the building. All the printers are attached to the network, and provide us with consistent, uniform print quality. Hence, on the rare occasion that a printer is temporarily out of use, for example whilst toner is being changed, there are several other alternatives that are easily accessed. The time that Sharples have saved us and the quality of their service has had a substantial, if often unrecognised, benefit for our business. I have now turned from cynic to supporter and would happily recommend Sharples to others and, once again, would like to thank Sharples for everything they have done for us. Michael Seddon - Director, Wilds Chartered Accountants
With the disparate mix of printers we had previously, we had no agreed service contracts, and so I spent much of my time travelling from site to site and having to maintain all of the printers personally. We calculated that it made economic sense to move to a fixed price per copy arrangement as we were printing more than 1,000 copies a month with most of our printers regularly exceeding this figure. The new contract has also allowed us to save considerable sums on toner cartridges and drums which we found were previously thrown away even when they were not completely empty. Not having to worry about the logistical problems involved in ensuring that the right stock quantities are sent to the right depots at the right time has been another key benefit to us, we can now focus out attentions more strongly on our core business issues. We have found the ES4300 to be a hard-wearing business machine capable of handling the high-volume print runs which are typical at Beesley and Fildes. Thanks to our contract with with Sharples Group when there is an issue, we can be certain that an engineer will be out to fix it on the same or next day. Paul Coulthard - Infrastructure Manager, Beesley and Fildes