Colour Laser and Mono or Just Colour?

[Disaster]

Hi all,

A couple of our printers need replacing in the IT rooms.

Do you think it would be cheaper to have a good quality colour printer with a low page cost or;

A mid range colour and a mid range mono?

 

Thought prease?

[Joanne]

good quality colour!

 

Be cheaper in the long run.

[jonspurs]

Have a look at the HP OfficeJet x476

[sonofsanta]

One single device. Cheaper per page is cheaper per page, so a decent colour will be cheaper on mono prints as well. If nothing else, there's the electric costs (not insignificant with laser printers) and the footprint of the things - most decent laser printers are monsters still.

[AlexB]

We go with single device, but to make lives easier they get mapped has separate virtual devices (mono/colour) so they don't have to fiddle with settings to print in mono to the colour printer.

[Oaktech]

Single device, make it big and then create multiple profiles for it.

 

Double side mono/single side mono/double side colour/single side colour.

 

Default everyone to double side mono!

[elsiegee40]

Single device, make it big and then create multiple profiles for it.

 

Double side mono/single side mono/double side colour/single side colour.

 

Default everyone to double side mono!

 

This! One really good device and several profiles