Black-and-White vs Colour Document Printing | Valenna

Black-and-White vs Colour Document Printing

Choose black-and-white for economical, text-heavy manuals, drafts, assignments and bulk educational material. Choose colour when photographs, charts, branding, warnings or colour coding would lose meaning in greyscale.

🎨 Which to pick

OptionBest for
Black and whiteText-heavy manuals, drafts, assignments, bulk educational material
Full colourCharts, photographs, warnings, branding or colour coding

🔍 Before you order black-and-white

Review a greyscale copy of your PDF. Different colours can convert to very similar grey values, which makes charts, legends and labels hard to tell apart.

⚠️ Warning: a chart that relies on red versus green will usually look identical in black and white. Redesign it with patterns or labels, or choose colour.

🖌️ Before you order colour

Use clear source images, and check thin lines, labels and contrast at the final page size. Screen colour and printed colour differ, as explained in screen colour vs printed colour.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Is colour much more expensive?

Colour costs more than black and white per printed page. The live price is on the document printing page.

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