Posted by Michelle/AL on 7/27/07 10:25am
Msg #202209

Monochrome Printer - Should I care?

I used the orange button but I didn't find an answer to my question. Should I care if a printer is Monochrome? I need to buy a printer and the monochrome printers tend to be less expensive. Is there a downside to using monochrome?

Reply by MistarellaFL on 7/27/07 10:28am
Msg #202211

Depends on what you will use it for.
Monochrome only means one color: black.
We only print loan docs in monochrome, so it's great for that.
If you want color, it won't do you a bit of good.

Reply by Michele Riley on 7/27/07 10:39am
Msg #202216

Thanks

I thought it meant the black ink wasn't really "black" but dark grey or something. Thanks for explaining.

Reply by Gerry_VT on 7/27/07 4:27pm
Msg #202323

Monochrome, color, laser & inkjet

You probably already know that you need a laser printer, not an inkjet. Since laser printers are almost always monochrome, and inkjet printers are almost always color, you might check to see why whoever you were listening to, or reading, was not talking about something unusual, such as a monochrome inkjet printer. People usually wouldn't bother to mention that a laser is monochrome.

Reply by Charles_Ca on 7/27/07 5:32pm
Msg #202337

Re: Monochrome, color, laser & inkjet, lots of color!

Actually there are lots of color lasers, not necesary for notary work but my experience has been that almost every real estate office I know has color laser printers. Besides several monochrome lasers I have two color lasers: a HP 2600n and a Xerox Phaser 6110 which uses color bricks instead of toner. I use them for advertising and for printing out property set-ups. The HP is great for a few pages and the Xerox is a real workhorse which I use for printing advertising. I use color injets for printing photographs (3 Epsons of different sizes) since the end result is so close to dye sublimation that it is hard to tell them apart. I even have an injet plotter !