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I am printing business cards on preprinted colored stock. I want white text
on the cards, but I cannot print white text when the document page is white.
Only when I have a background color. I do not want to print the background
color over the preprinted card background, but when I do not print the
background color, the white text will not print either.

How can I print white text on colored paper when the Word 2003 document
background is white?
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You can only print in white with specialised ink and equipment; normal
printers do not have white ink. When you print the background colour on
white paper you are still not using white ink, it is just the white
background showing through - if you do it on coloured stock the colour of
the stock will show through instead.

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I am printing business cards on preprinted colored stock. I want white text
on the cards, but I cannot print white text when the document page is
white.
Only when I have a background color. I do not want to print the background
color over the preprinted card background, but when I do not print the
background color, the white text will not print either.

How can I print white text on colored paper when the Word 2003 document
background is white?


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Hello Michael

MichaelMiller1556 wrote:
I am printing business cards on preprinted colored stock. I want white text
on the cards, but I cannot print white text when the document page is white.
Only when I have a background color. I do not want to print the background
color over the preprinted card background, but when I do not print the
background color, the white text will not print either.

How can I print white text on colored paper when the Word 2003 document
background is white?


In general, you simply cannot!

An ordinary color printer has 3 (cyan, magenta, yellow) or 4 (+black)
colors only to print. There is no white color. To achieve a white font,
you really would have to print the surrounding colors on white paper
(or, as in your case, you might get away with a very light grey font color).

Professional printers might have additional spot colors, and I presume
one of those can be white. But I'd be surprised to see this in a typical
(and payable) home or even office printer.

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Just another perspective to affirm the posts from Tony & Robert - it may
help to think in terms of choosing white as a color the equivalent of
specifying "put no ink here" :-)
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I am printing business cards on preprinted colored stock. I want white text
on the cards, but I cannot print white text when the document page is
white.
Only when I have a background color. I do not want to print the background
color over the preprinted card background, but when I do not print the
background color, the white text will not print either.

How can I print white text on colored paper when the Word 2003 document
background is white?



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There is at least one manufacturer of domestic printers who does a white
ink cartridge ( see
http://www.colourwise.co.uk/11415/Ok..._Cartridge.htm)

If you could find a compatible cartridge for your printer, replace your
black cartridge with the white one and print black text - which will
come out white.

Not great for document printing, but should be fine for business cards
and transparencies or OHP slides.


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