White Ink??

[Guest]

Hi Group,

Don't you think its about time the printer manufacturers got round to
producing printers with a white ink cartridge.

With all the advances in users producing all kinds of print work from home
or office we are still basically limited to white paper outputs. Yes I know
you can print on coloured card but a lot of work requires some areas of
white and that's where we need a base colour of white.
Just think of the possibilities.

Anyone know of any advances in this area.

David

 

[Kenneth]

Hi Group,

Don't you think its about time the printer manufacturers got round to
producing printers with a white ink cartridge.

With all the advances in users producing all kinds of print work from home
or office we are still basically limited to white paper outputs. Yes I know
you can print on coloured card but a lot of work requires some areas of
white and that's where we need a base colour of white.
Just think of the possibilities.

Anyone know of any advances in this area.

David

Hi David,

Our friends at Google have apparently worked on this... <g>

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q="white+ink"++printer

Maybe something there will help,

 

[David French]

Hi Group,

Don't you think its about time the printer manufacturers got round to
producing printers with a white ink cartridge.

I don't know the details, but it strikes me that if you are printing, say,
magenta on white, and some of the white shows through, you still get
magenta. But if you are printing white on, say, red, and some of the red
shows through, you definately don't get white. So the ink would have to be
pretty solid stuff. I'm thinking of tipp-ex here. And I don't suppose that
would be very compatible with ultra-mega-microdot inkjet printing
technology.

I like the idea but I would think the technical hurdles would be quite
major.

D

 

[leo]

I don't know the details, but it strikes me that if you are printing, say,
magenta on white, and some of the white shows through, you still get
magenta. But if you are printing white on, say, red, and some of the red
shows through, you definately don't get white. So the ink would have to be
pretty solid stuff. I'm thinking of tipp-ex here. And I don't suppose that
would be very compatible with ultra-mega-microdot inkjet printing
technology.

I like the idea but I would think the technical hurdles would be quite
major.

D

Right. Can't be done on an inkjet then. The Alps dry ink printer has white
and metallic collor.