High-intent scenario
An escalation clause lets the leasing company raise your monthly payment on a fixed schedule — commonly 5% to 15% a year — without changing your machine, your service, or your page allowance. On a 63-month lease at 10% annual escalation, a $299 payment becomes roughly $438 before the term ends.
Send your current payment and we'll tell you what the clause has already cost you and what a fixed-payment replacement looks like.
Escalation clauses are usually a single line buried in the payment schedule, written as an annual adjustment or CPI-linked increase. They are legal, disclosed, and almost never mentioned during the sale. The increase compounds, so the last year of the lease is the most expensive year — for the same machine you have had since day one.
Printree leases are written with 0% escalation: the payment on month 63 is the payment on month 1. Service, parts, labor and toner are included, and the included page allowance is set from your real usage instead of a sales estimate. If your current lease has escalation left on it, we review the buyout math before recommending anything.
An invoice and a copy of the agreement is all we need to find the clause.
You get the total remaining escalation in dollars, not percentages.
A 0% escalation lease built on your actual page volume.
If a buyout is the right call, Printree covers the payoff and the old machine pickup.
Rarely. Once signed, the clause runs with the contract. The realistic options are to ride out the term, or to review a buyout and replace the agreement with a fixed-payment lease. We tell you which one the numbers support.
Look at the payment schedule and any addendum near the signature page. It is usually one sentence describing an annual adjustment or a percentage cap. Send us the agreement and we will point to the exact line.
No. Every Printree lease is written at 0% escalation — the payment is fixed for the full term, including the 63-month option.
Stuck in a lease you regret? See what a buyout costs and how Printree covers the payoff check and the old machine pickup.
See the fixBill jumping every month? Get your allowance and click rates rebuilt around real usage at $0.01 B&W / $0.07 color.
See the fixMultiple sites, contracts and end dates collapsed into one agreement, one invoice and one service standard.
See the fixAn invoice and a copy of the lease agreement is all we need. You'll get real numbers back within 24 hours.
