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Black and white laser printer Electronic color printer Printing press SELECTING A PRINTING METHOD You can print scanned images on a variety of devices. Here are three of the most common: Black and white printers (laser, ink jet, or dot matrix) like those used in most offices produce good to excellent text and line art but are not as good for gray-scale images. You might use these printers to reproduce photographs in newsletters or informal reports that don't require the highest quality. The example to the left shows a typical photograph printed by a laser printer. Electronic color printers use laser, ink jet, or other technologies to produce color or gray scale images that range in quality from coarsely patterned to nearly photographic (often called continuous tone). Electronic color printers work well for small quantities of color images or for proofs of images you'll later print on a printing press. The image to the left was printed on an electronic color printer. Printing presses can produce high quality and high volume work, You scan and edit your images and then send the files to a service bureau or printing company, which uses a high resolution imagesetter such as the Linotronic™ 300 for high quality text and gray-scale images. For full-color images, you scan in color and then use your image editing software to produce the color separation files that are necessary for printing color on a printing press. Note: All three images on this page were scanned with an Epson scanner.