White Ink

Traditionally anything white on a digitally printed page has just been the paper showing through. If you changed the colour of the paper, the white items would be the colour of the paper, altering the appearance of the print. It also made transparent labels tricky to achieve a good result with.

But now with Speedy Print's white ink, you can add white to your prints opening up new possibilities for printing on coloured papers and transparent labels. It can be used on its own, or as an underlay to preserve the correct colouring of images and other design elements.

Creating the WHITE SPOT COLOUR

White ink can be used as a standard spot colour to enhance your designs. You can overprint it with CMYK to help preserve its appearance on coloured stocks.

How do I set up a spot colour

1. Create a swatch called “White” (Note: name is case sensitive)

2. Define the Colour Type as “Spot”

3. Make spot colour 100% Cyan.

Other important spot colour info

• Place all white spot colour objects on a separate layer from any other objects.

• To overprint other colours:
  Vector Objects Select the item then go to the attributes panel and select either the stroke or fill or both as you need.
  Bitmap Images (.jpeg and .png files) Select the item go to the transparency panel and select multiply.
  Make sure all overprinting objects are on a separate layer from any spot colour items.

• When exporting, make sure you use the PDFX/4 standard, include 3mm bleed, and make sure the create acrobat layers check box is ticked. For more details for exporting, visit our file prep page.