A Black-and-white Issue

According to Paul Preo, business line manager of distributed printers for IBM Printing Systems, recent data indicates that as much as 75 percent of the work managed by in-plants is of the black-and-white kind.

"Monochrome is still a lot less expensive and now offers excellent quality," he notes.

"Today's digital monochrome technology boasts the strongest image quality ever, rivaling offset output," concurs Jerry Murray, vice president, product marketing, Xerox Production Systems Group.