diff --git a/showbits-thermal-printer-ui/src/components/CDocumentXkcd.vue b/showbits-thermal-printer-ui/src/components/CDocumentXkcd.vue
index 564057f..51ee01e 100644
--- a/showbits-thermal-printer-ui/src/components/CDocumentXkcd.vue
+++ b/showbits-thermal-printer-ui/src/components/CDocumentXkcd.vue
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const form = useTemplateRef<HTMLFormElement>("form");
 
 const number = ref<number>();
 const dither = ref(true);
-const bright = ref(false);
+const bright = ref(true);
 const feed = ref(true);
 
 function submit() {
diff --git a/showbits-thermal-printer/src/documents/xkcd/mod.rs b/showbits-thermal-printer/src/documents/xkcd/mod.rs
index cac5e86..8c8e305 100644
--- a/showbits-thermal-printer/src/documents/xkcd/mod.rs
+++ b/showbits-thermal-printer/src/documents/xkcd/mod.rs
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ pub async fn post(server: State<Server>, Form(form): Form<FormData>) -> somehow:
             image,
             max_width,
             max_height,
-            form.bright.unwrap_or(false),
+            form.bright.unwrap_or(true),
             "stucki",
         )
         .map_err(somehow::Error)?;