1. A method for reducing an amount of marking material to be used for printing an image on a receiving material using a printing process, the image comprising image pixels, each image pixel having a pixel value selected from a first value indicating that marking material is to be applied and a second value indicating that no marking material is to be applied, wherein the printing process is configured to apply print pixels and wherein each image pixel is associated with at least two print pixels, the method comprising the step of generating a print signal that indicates for each print pixel whether marking material is to be applied or not based on the corresponding pixel value, wherein the step of generating the print signal comprises filtering the print pixels using a predefined mask that defines for which print pixels no marking material is to be applied independent of the pixel value of the associated image pixel.