willay
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That is the question.
Currently we share with another company who provide two printers, one colour and one black&white, both are laser.
We are approaching a refit and we will require our own printers, now we are still a small company (under 5 people) and we print every day for meetings, presentations and whatever else.
My question is, would you guys recommend replicating my current setup (one for colour one for b&w) or shall I go for one? I'm pretty sure in a lot of applications you can tell it to print b&w only?
I'm not too sure about the pros and cons of each setup so I'd like to listen to people who have to look after printers as part of the daily IT gig, cost is always at mind.
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pow
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Do you need a photocopier? Leasing a small photocopier that can print has halved our printing costs, plus it does all in one scanning to silly resolution, copying, document server and printing.
Then have a printer as a backup 
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ed
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Don't most colour lasers have a toner for B&W and a CMYK toner? If so, then getting a colour would mean you would need one less machine, and when you set B&W for printing you wont waste the CMYK toner.
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pow
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Most Colour Lasers have a Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black toner.
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willay
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nah we'll use the shared office photochopier pow
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AdZ9
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I'm not 100% sure what your line of work exactly is willay but i can say from my perspective of working in the design studio for a big publishers.
We have 2 printers, one for Colour and one thats B&W only, we used to use one but it was a pain in the ass because if someone pressed the wrong thing or forgot to change settings you ended up print stuff and wasting it. So we went to 2 printers, on the main network and are in our studio, ones ATN6(B&W) and one ATN9(Colour) so we just send to whatever one we need to. As we do ads for B&W and Colour sometimes we just design the ad in colour and then to see a proof can send it to each printer instead of making a PDF in black and white etc.
Don't know if that helps, but i'm bored at work already and felt like typing 
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willay
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ad- we providing it solutions, our printing is mostly for meetings, our own sanity (printing off network diagrams  ) and presentations/contracts so a good colour print will be required some of the time but not all.
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Cosmo
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We got a colour laser printer a few months back, think it was a Samsung one. Was only a few £100 I think.
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