Faulty office equiptment

Why is it that businesses find it so hard to replace antiquated office equipment that is causing your company to BLEED money? When I see people fussing with a printer on a daily basis and I think about what professionals get paid, I think about how much money is wasted on a piece of office equipment that is worth at MAX $400 and would cost only around $3000 to replace. If I added the time people spend trying to get this piece of equipment to work it would not take long to get to $3000. That includes the Tech department which is often called up to fix it, the people who are not trained to fix it but have become so out of necessity (users) and the contractor that is often called in to fix it it.

So investing the $3000 to stop the bleeding of many many thousands of dollars, not to mention lost productivity would be a WISE investment. The company does know about the problem also because the tech department is often called up to fix this machine. All I can say is that I don't want to be the person that is making the decision NOT to replace this printer when it comes down to the bottom line.