BATTLE of PRINTING BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES

Posted on 31 July 2023

A Must Watch Video for Black and White Print Jobs

If you are a photographer or designer looking to print a book featuring black and white, monochrome images then this is a crucial video for you to watch, absorb and act on.

It can be extremely hard to effectively print black-and-white images in digital print. Thankfully, this isn’t our first rodeo so we take a deep dive into how to get around this and why it is so difficult.

This is an issue that you will encounter at every printer but at Ex Why Zed we are keen to point it out and help before going ahead.

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