Image Solutions operates a printing service for customers with digital cameras. The current service, which requires employees to download photos from customer cameras, has monthly operating costs of $7,000 plus $0.30 per 

photo printed. Management is evaluating the desirability of acquiring a machine that will allow customers to download and make prints without employee assistance. If the machine is acquired, the monthly fixed costs will increase to $13,000 and the variable costs of printing a photo will decline to $0.05 per photo.

 

Determine the monthly volume at which the proposed process becomes preferable to the current process.