Black-and-white Printers in a Four-color World

Buyers Lab is starting to see perfect binding on many high-end monochrome products.

“Everybody across the board is offering booklet finishers, and we continue to see units accommodate more pages,” Hoffman says. In some cases, trimmers are standard with the finishers to provide a flush cut.

In the future, Ricoh’s Coon says to look for products offering resolutions of 1,200 dpi or better, a wider range of stock handling with increasing speeds and falling prices.