Print On Black Paper
How you do so depends on the software and hardware available to you.
Print on black paper. Printing inks use subtractive color which effectively means that if you just keep adding color you ll eventually get pure black. You d think it d be fairly simple to print white text on black paper. Cardstock is thicker paper and is more durable but it can still be inserted into a printer.
However printing on colored paper may present problems in the color of images you print so run test pages before blindly committing to a color of paper that might ruin. But unfortunately the problem is that the color printing inks cyan yellow magenta and black are actually transparent. You can t just stick a black piece of paper or any other non white sheet of paper into the printer and get white text by selecting white or even a shade of near white for your text.
Dark backgrounds in print are typically handled in one of two ways. White paper is a blank sheet that lets you print nearly any color of the rainbow on it. White paper black ink print the background dark paper use special opaque inks print the foreground.
With offset printing or ink jet it d nearly always be option 1. Printing on colored paper allows you to draw attention to fliers or other printing projects. Typically when you print content on your printer you use white paper and print the content in black ink.
Let s back up and consider the technology you re using. Print white on black paper using a black background. It can also save ink by providing your projects with an automatic background color.
This is as opposed to colored light for example. However you may find the need at some point to print on black paper. But if you ve ever tried to print white font you know it s not actually as simple as it seems like it should be.
Depending on the method of printing one may be more common than the other.
