Photocopiers

Our school creates a yearly handbook and directory, loaded with pictures. They are about 60 pages combined and have lots of photographs. To make them look good, we have to print them, as copying doesn’t give the photos enough variety of shades or shades of gray.

We are in Thailand and are not working with the most sophisticated copying equipment, though the copy shops are cheap and efficient.

I remember from the early 80’s, before sophisticated printers, that you could process the pictures so that they could print well on black and white dot-matrix printers and would copy well. The shades of grey were made by distancing of the pixels.

Anyway, is there anyway to do something like this with Picasa or another simple photo editor?

Thanks a lot!!! – William in Chiang Rai, Thailand

I suppose it depends on the printer. But usually simple copiers are able to print few shades of gray. So your pictures will come with high contrast. The best thing to do is to prepare the pictures with high contrast before so that the copier will not change them much. I don’t know Picasa but adjusting contrast is a simple operation that any photo editing program can do. Just edit the photos with a high contrast that looks good.

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1. dimitris k Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 2:21 am

   I suppose it depends on the printer. But usually simple copiers are able to print few shades of gray. So your pictures will come with high contrast. The best thing to do is to prepare the pictures with high contrast before so that the copier will not change them much. I don’t know Picasa but adjusting contrast is a simple operation that any photo editing program can do. Just edit the photos with a high contrast that looks good.
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