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How does white ink printing work?

How does white ink printing work?

There are four colours in a standard printing process – CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black). These four colours are used to create the entire spectrum of printed colours we see in the majority of printing. These CMYK inks are printed onto white stocks, so any area left unprinted appears white. By adding white as the fifth colour in CMYK printing, you can enjoy all the colours you normally design with but on coloured stocks! This includes any coloured boards as well as metallic card stocks, neon papers, pearlescent boards, kraft and a myriad of other funky and creative paper colours and styles that traditional ink print can’t reproduce!

white ink printing on coloured card
white ink printing on brown kraft paper

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