A Black-and-white Issue

"The price and speed [of color printing] will never quite equal that of black-and-white printing," admits Thom Cordeiro, group product marketing manager, production print, Konica Minolta Business Solutions. "Even with the speed of some of the new color devices at 50 and 60 pages per minute, and a monthly rating of up to 150,000 impressions, that does not begin to reach the requirements of the large in-plant, which may be printing upwards of 500,000 to 700,000 impressions on a single device. … There is no question that the cost [of color] is getting lower and closer to the cost of black and white, but it is not there yet."