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White printing on a dark background-- How?
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Monday, 14 July 2008
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You KNOW you can't do it on a printer because there is no white ink. White is the absence of color.... so, how can you do it ???
Here are some ideas...
#1. Create a dark rectangle of color with white lettering and print it onto white paper.
The dark color prints and the white lettering that is showing through is the white paper.
You can do this on any word processing program (or photoshop or??) by creating a rectangle and filling it with your color. Write your message in a text box (or use word art). Make your lettering color white. "Arrange" the layers so the lettering is to the front.
(You could do this and print it onto any color paper--say bright yellow-- and the resulting lettering would be the color of the paper. Guess that's one way to save ink!)
But that uses a ton of ink filling in that dark rectangle..so here are some other ideas to get that effect but not use up your entire ink cartridge on the background rectangle.
#2. This is a variation of #1.... do the same thing, but save it to a jump drive and have it printed at a copy center. I think color copies are like $.39 at my local Staples. So you could do the color file and save it as a jpg and get a color copy printed out from your file. I believe it would be cheaper than using up your ink! (P.S. if you upload it to Staples online, they give you 10% off. You just tell them where to print it and you go pick it up locally.)
#3. This is a variation of #2.... do the same thing, but save it to a jump drive and have it printed as a REPRINT at a photo printing place. (Isn't it like $0.14 at Walmart or Costco?)
#4. Use a white pen to trace over the printing. Use a light color of your font (like light gray) and print it onto cardstock, or vellum, or whatever. The best gel pen I've used is the Uniball Signo. It's amazing! I also recommend the Elmer's painters but they are thicker. (Or for big fonts, you can even use puffy paint.)
#5. S T A M P I T onto dark cardstock. Better for a title than journaling!
Stamp the letters in white and use white embossing powder on red paper... Or stamp the word in clear on white paper. Use clear embossing powder. Then coat with red ink and the stamped letters will resist the ink.
Also, Jaquard is sending me a Castaway pad which bleaches the paper (but is supposed to be more effective and less blotchy than using real bleach). Maybe stamping with that on red cardstock might work (but I bet it depends on the cardstock as to what lighter color appears). I'll update this when I get it...
#6.There's the old stand-by: white stickers on dark cardstock... OR...here's a CUTE IDEA for using stickers!!!!... Use the stickers as a MASK. Use any color sticker you want. (You will be removing them.) Place them onto white cardstock. Then paint over them with dark paint. (red or whatever.) Make it streaky for an interesting effect. Remove the stickers after the paint is dry and the white letters will be left. MASK
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