What Is Print Contrast?

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Video Transcript

"I'm Johnathan Ayres with Network for Success and today we're going to talk about, What is print contrast? Print contrast refers to the differences in darks and lights on a piece of paper that you have printed. So contrast means how much difference there is between the dark tones and the light tones. So for example if you wanted to print text, you'd want, print the text in black and white and you want the black to be very black and the white to be very white. Now you can set those differences on a printer both through the computer program that you have on your computer and through the printer. Let's take an example on the computer first and show how to set the print contrast. I have a document right here in front of me and it's just a very simple document it has some pictures and some text on it. And what we're going to do is we're going to start the printing process. So the first thing we do is click on print. And then it comes up with our choices and in this case we click on advanced and then we go to the choices in advanced for setting the color options. And those color options are going to offer us choices for different types of set ups. We can print in gray scale, we can do black only, we can do half tones smooth and just the simple RGB, red, green and blue settings for color. So if we wanted to change the contrast on this document we would manipulate these settings. And then I could make the document lighter or darker."