A Black-and-white Issue

"Black-and-white printing has reached the point where its print quality is competitive with offset printing in many applications," Dunn continues. "For high-volume requirements—with or without variable data printing—digital printers can now handle many of the jobs formerly run on offset units. The advantages are that high makeready costs of offset are avoided, and the [in-plant] can print only what is necessary, rather than printing an economic quantity and storing the bulk in inventory, where some portion will become obsolete and have to be discarded."