Though color pages are climbing, black-and-white printers remain an important part of most in-plants. Here are 10 tips to help you pick the right device.

By Joe Ranoia

BlueCross BlueShield’s Steve Tschida, on the other hand, is more worried about volume. One of the in-plant’s staple duties is to print a document called a Zero Payment Explanation of Benefits Statement.

“It’s a piece of paper that says you owe us nothing,” Tschida muses. “What we’re printing is just black type on a white piece of paper.” When the in-plant switched from the 600-dpi resolution of its DocuTech 180s to the 300-dpi quality of the Océ VarioStream 7450, the difference in quality was negligible.