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

Balik says while that’s rooted in an asset management perspective, in-plant managers should consider combination printers’ affordability and potential productivity trade-offs, noting print providers must optimize time, cost and quality.

Printers will still be interested in monochrome printers when their criteria for printing doesn’t support the added cost of color printing or the extra functionality of scanning, Ricoh’s Coon says.