I've had cases where colour was required e.g. one of my ID stamps was unreadable in black-and-white, my tax return form has colour sections (might have been accepted in black-and-white but was certainly clearer in colour)...
I absolutely 100% guarantee that you can submit tax forms printed in black and white. I suspect the IRS is more surprised when they see printed forms that are anything but.
Thing is, I also own a color scanner. It’s just as easy for me to make a color copy of a doc as a B/W copy. That’s pretty common now. If your bank thinks that a form with red lines on it must be an original, then they suck at technology more than most banks.
> If your bank thinks that a form with red lines on it must be an original, then they suck at technology more than most banks.
Be that as it may, I don't have a banking license and wasn't about to turn my nose up at a bank that finally let me open a corporate account after about 4 months of effort.