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* Most newspapers were black-and-white until the late 1970s ; The New York Times and The Washington Post remained in black-and-white until the 1990s.

Some claim that USA Today was the major impetus for the change to color.

In the UK, color was only slowly introduced from the mid 1980s.

Even today, many newspapers restrict color photographs to the front and other prominent pages since mass producing photographs in black-and-white is considerably less expensive than color.

Similarly, daily comic strips in newspapers were traditionally black-and-white with color reserved for Sunday strips.