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I'm looking for a good printer for software development.
I think I'll need two types of printer. One I think will be a color laser for things going to customers (proposals, user guides, flyers etc.) I may outsource this.
I'm also thinking about printers for developers and designers. I'm thinking about an inkjet all-in-one for scanning in documents as well as printing drafts of materials destined for the color laser.
We're trying to get away from printing out source code or even articles found on the 'net, so I'm thinking second monitors would be better than cheap laser printers.
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Personally employing developers without giving them a second monitor is tantamount to torcher and makes you an abusive employer as far as I am concerned 
Seriously, invest in multiple monitors for your developers, and not the skimpy 19 inch ones but the nice 22 or 24 inchers too.
Instead of printers, get a good PDF printer application (cute PDF is free and simple but there are others) and tons of HD space on a server for them to store those things they find worthy of 'saving' and then maybe one or two simple B&W lasers for printing stuff that is worthy of going up on the wall for quick reference.
Color lasers are great for final copy, but in reality, unless you are going to really be printing your own docs, get a printing company to do that for you and just print to a PDF for them to use as a layout reference. Are you REALY going to be shipping printed docs anyway? as far as color proposals go, unless you are trying to impress the 'big boys' print the proposal, all but maybe the cover, in B&W. Anything else is just a waste as far as I am concerned. As a customer I don't really care if your proposal has a full color layout, I want to see the solution. Yeah screen shots look nice in color, but if you get in the door you can do a PowerPoint and they can see them there.
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