Soren Harrison fundraising for SolSolution Needs A Working Printer

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Help Us Reach More Schools with Our Own Printer

You might find this strange, but we know you'll understand once you here how much of a difference it will make. (And for some insight as to how much of a nightmare we've been dealing with, see our rant below.) 

In the interest of your time, let's summarize what our past experiences in printing and our recent research on printers has revealed. 

By printing at professional printing locations, we would easily run up a printing cost of over $7,500 every year. In 2012, we were talking with schools and finishing proposals every month, and we can tell 2013 is going to be even more hectic and exciting for SolSolution. 

On the other hand, if we buy our own printer, stock up on paper and toner, we'll only accumulate an annual cost of about $2,000 a year. The $500 dollars left in our goal goes towards the one-time cost of purchasing a reliable printer.

So at the end of the day, we know that we can have more of an impact by having our own printer at our office. And not just any ol' printer. But a printer that makes it that much easier to connect with more schools by printing proposals and presentations dependably and regularly. We need a printer that can keep up with our high-powered team, and the mission we are trying to achieve.

One last thing. We want your contributions to have the biggest impact for us and our schools. So rather than spending your generosity on over-priced professional printing, we can actually print more presentations, talk to more schools, and get more solar up by reaching our goal on this campaign. 

You can help us power up for 2013! 

Some Background: Our Printing Nightmare

Imagine this scenario:

You've been toiling away for 12 hours straight on hundreds of pages of writing, only breaking for the bathroom and to stuff some food in your mouth every now and again. Not to mention the hundreds of hours you dedicated beforehand to research, communicate, outline, and draft it all up. 

Finally, at 3 am, you hit the Save button with an air of triumphant victory. 

But now, you realize either:

a) your printer isn't connecting wirelessly

b) you're out of paper

c) you're out of just one color of ink that completely throws off the polished look of everything you put together

d) it prints, but only halfway

That is the nightmare we face every time we are about to approach a school, school district, or municipality with a new proposal. No matter how much we prepare ahead of time, the sheer challenge we face in printing is nearly as daunting as putting the presentation together itself.

Not to mention that it absoultely pain us, a solar company trying to save the earth, to have to print thousands of pages over the course of the year to help schools go solar. But one step at a time.

Our Past Solution: Professional Printing

Not to name names or anything, but many of you probably don't realize how ridiculously expensive it is to print at professional print stores and companies. 

Printing 10 copies of our last 110-page proposal could have cost us much as $920 and as little as $400. Staggering, right? We are not exaggerating at all. 

When we were only doing 1 or 2 proposals and school presentations in a year, we could still stomach that price. Or prepare ourselves mentally for the nightmare that is our current office printer. 

But even at the end of 2012, we had proposals and presentations to complete and print every month. And if anything, 2013 is going to be even more hectic. We are extremely excited and confident that we will be able to meet school's expectations, if only our printing situation would cooperate. 

So rather than wasting our own money on printing, or worse, wasting our supporters' money on professional printing. We've decided to take a stand. 

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