Cost & Pricing
Color vs. Mono Cost Comparison
Isolate the color premium you pay every month.
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Color costs several times what mono does, so the share of pages you print in color quietly drives a big chunk of spend. This tool prices your actual color mix against an all-mono baseline so you can see exactly what color is costing you.
How it works
We split your monthly volume into color and mono pages by your color percentage, price each at its cost per page, and annualize. The all-mono column prices every page at the mono rate; the gap is your color premium.
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Common questions
Is color worth it?
For customer-facing work, often yes. For internal drafts and email, rarely. Print rules that default to mono usually cut the premium without anyone noticing.