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# Printing Issues with the Letter Formation for Little People Range. What do you suggest?




| If PLD prints the grey letters any darker, it makes the letters too dark for students to trace over in a lead pencil. We worked with the printers, trialing many different shades of grey too. 

**We do recognise, however, that many photocopying issues can be solved by:**
* Copying the page with some card or a few sheets of paper behind it (and this stops the light going right through the page, which is often what causes the grey to fade too much), 
* Adjusting the the photo copier settings so that the sheets are printed a gradiennt darker.


**If the above does not resolve the issues, we suggest:**
* Scanning the page as a colour scan to a PDF (still with backing card behind it) and then printing the scan in black and white. 
* Sometimes, colour copying produces a better result, and then printing it as black and white keeps the cost down.

If you have tried the above workaround, please contact PLD: mail@pld-literacy.org 

In our experience,  the first workaround fixes the issue for most schools.