Unable to print WHITE font on colored paper
Gigi
so if I try to print WHITE text on colored background it
works fine, because word prints only the background, and
if it's on white paper (as most time is) it seems white
text ... and it uses a LOT of ink...
If I try to set no background at all and set the font
color to WHITE my printer spit a blank page. :( :(
Anyone has a solution to that?
TIA
Gigi
Doug Robbins
Use a white ink/toner cartridge if you can find one.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
only way you could actually print in white is if a white ink cartridge is
available for your printer; in this case you would format the ink as black,
anyway, and it would print using the white cartridge (at least, that's the
way the silver and gold ones work).
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Frank Adam
> If I try to set no background at all and set the font
> color to WHITE my printer spit a blank page. :( :(
What kind of printer do You use? Only few printers are able to print in
white. Some OKI ribbon cartridge printers (aka ALPS, aka CITIZEN) can. Laser
printers can't (except a special white toner cartridge is installed). Inkjet
printers can't at all.
-Frank
Genine
Chuck
paper by making everything else black or a color. Uses a lot of ribbon, ink,
or toner, with usually only marginal results. With the old "character"
printers, a white ribbon or even the erase ribbon might be used. I once
used an Epson wide carrage dot matrix printer that used multicolor ribbons,
and could print white when the correct ribbon was installed. Since the
printing needles carred some ink on the tip, you had to run a page or so
with no ribbon between the needles and the paper to clean the tip of the
needles before white ink was used. Eventually the color band fabric backed
ribbons became contaminated, so the plastic one time use ribbons were the
norm.
If you really need to do such things, they are possible on white paper by
converting the page to a graphic and changing the graphic to a negative.
Just remember to buy lots of ink or toner! Bold fonts work a bit better than
standard, and forget fonts with thin parts of characters.
Printing with white ink and an ink jet printer with ink tanks is possible.
You need to use either a seperate head or head and tank combination.
Cleaning out the same head between black and white ink is a pain, and wastes
a fair amount of white ink. I believe that this only works with printers
that can use particle based ink for white.
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Character
> Printing with white ink and an ink jet printer with ink tanks is possible.
> You need to use either a separate head or head and tank combination.
As an aside, HP inkjets incorporate the printhead into the ink
cartidges, while Epson printers' printheads are in the printer.
Even with the cartridge/printhead combinations, there always seems to be
an ink residue somewhere in the paper path that needs to be cleaned by
passing a sheet or two of paper through.
- Character
machin...@yahoo.com
document, like you mention, you are STILL not printing white, you are
printing a colored background.