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Monochrome printing is a must in modern commercial printing environments. If your customers want black and white and you’re still using color printers, your business is missing out. Here’s why.
Monochrome printing
Nowadays, to get the most out of your commercial printing services, you need to offer affordable monochrome printing. Using a color commercial printer for black and white jobs will cut your profits because production printers produce millions of pages every day, from statements and invoices to legal documents and insurance, where customers demand printing in black and white.
Benefits of monochrome printing.
Monochrome printing costs less per page, can run faster, and brings serious return on investment (ROI). For businesses where color isn’t a requirement, monochrome is the right choice.
Monochrome printing benefits.
- Lower cost per page.
- Higher throughput.
- Lower total cost of ownership.
- Big ROI
Monochrome Inkjet Printer Applications
Monochrome printing opens a variety of doors for commercial printers looking to start saving more when printing to increase profit margins.
Monochrome Inkjet Printer: should I choose inkjet printing or laser?
For the commercial printing industry, there’s always a debate between inkjet commercial printers or a commercial laser printer. While both output documents, production inkjet and laser are not the same technology at scale. At commercial volumes, the differences in cost, speed, and output quality are significant.
Inkjet vs laser printer: which is better for high-volume monochrome?
At commercial printing volumes, hundreds of thousands or millions of pages per month, inkjet printers wins on almost every metric that affects profitability.
Laser printers use heat to fuse toner onto paper. That fusing process consumes energy, requires maintenance of the fuser assembly, and creates toner waste. Inkjet drops microscopic ink particles directly onto the page, reducing production stages and as a result directly translating it into cost-per-page and uptime.
Benefits of inkjet printers in production environments
- Variable data printing at full speed.
- Energy efficiency.
- Consistent output quality over long runs.
- Lower cost per page at volume.
Commercial Printing Services from Kyocera
Kyocera has manufactured inkjet printheads since the early 2000s. Thanks to our decades of experience creating precision ceramic technology, other OEMs integrated Kyocera inkjet printheads into their commercial printers.
After seeing the market didn’t have an affordable production inkjet printer, we created the TASKalfa Pro 15000c. Building upon that market-leading inkjet technology legacy, we created the TASKalfa Pro 15000b, which will transform monochrome commercial printing environments.
Benefits of Kyocera Inkjet Printers
- Uptime
- Total cost of ownership
- Print quality that holds
- Reliability
Interested in color printing?
Color production printing handles jobs where standing out from the crowd is a must: marketing materials, catalogs, and direct mail printing campaigns. So, if you’re looking to add affordable color into your operation, the market-leading TASkalfa Pro 15000c is a no brainer.
Learn more about color printing
Discover our commercial printer the TASKalfa Pro 15000c, capable of printing in color and black and white.
Kyocera Monochrome Inkjet Printer: TASKalfa Pro 15000b
The TASKalfa Pro 15000b is Kyocera's purpose-built monochrome production printer. It's engineered specifically for high-volume black-and-white production.
Check out some of the specifications.
At 3 million images per month, the TASKalfa Pro 15000b handles serious commercial print volumes, while combining this high-volume printing with reliability and quality, helping commercial printers to say yes to more jobs.
Monochrome inkjet printer specifications.
Discover all the specifications on our latest device.
Whether you’re looking to print in full color or are searching for a monochrome inkjet printer, Kyocera are on hand to support you with your commercial printing goals.
FAQ: Your monochrome inkjet printer questions
Our commercial printing experts answer your questions.
- Questions & Answers
A monochrome inkjet printer uses inkjet technology to produce black-and-white output only. In production printing, monochrome inkjet systems are purpose-built for high-volume applications, typically transactional documents where color isn't needed and cost-per-page at scale is the priority.
The Kyocera TASKalfa Pro 15000b is an example of a cut-sheet monochrome inkjet production printer, capable of 172 images per minute and up to 3 million images per month.
For commercial printer volumes, a production inkjet printer is the only viable choice.
Laser printers use a heat-fusing process that adds energy cost and maintenance complexity at scale. Production inkjet systems drop ink directly onto the page with no fusing required, running faster and cheaper at sustained high volumes.
Monochrome printing uses a single black ink to produce black-and-white output.
Color printing uses multiple inks, typically cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to reproduce full-color images.
Monochrome printing costs less per page, runs faster, and requires less complex machinery. It's the standard for transactional documents, book publishing, and any application where color doesn't add value.
Kyocera's TASKalfa Pro 15000b handles up to 3 million images per month at up to 172 images per minute.
If you are a commercial printer who outputs transactional documents (bills, statements, insurance EOBs), on-demand book printing, legal and financial correspondence, high-volume in-plant corporate printing, or text-heavy direct mail campaigns then monochrome printing is a great choice. These applications share common traits: high volume, black-and-white content, and a business model where cost-per-page directly affects profitability.
Kyocera's commercial printers have been market-leaders for the last five years and our inkjet printheads are a key part of that. Kyocera inkjet printheads use precision ceramic components to control ink droplet placement.
The ceramic construction gives the printheads longer operational life and more consistent output quality than conventional printhead designs. Kyocera has manufactured inkjet printheads since the early 2000s and supplies them to other OEMs.
Ready to talk commercial printing?
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