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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 grade 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.

Kind regards, DLP

Updated on: 02/04/2025

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