Black-and-white Copiers The Plain Truth

"Analog has gone by the wayside," says Rodney Brown, graphics manager at the Graphic Communications Center of the University of Delaware, in Newark, Del. "The copy quality is so much better on digital than analog; you can get exceptionally good black-and-white quality."

Bartels, who last had an analog copier more than five years ago, says the digital models are more reliable, with downtime averaging less than one day per month.