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Here is a question I received from one of my customers. Does anyone have an answer?

"Is it possible to print white letters onto colored paper? You'd think you could just create a document, change the letters' colors to white, and print straight onto the paper, but it instead spits out a blank sheet with no letters! Changing the printing properties from 'Color' to 'Black and White' doesn't help. I tried changing the paper type to Color and adjusting the document's letters' color, to no avail. Obviously, the printer assumes you're usually printing on white paper and just sprays no colors in that section to leave it as white, but, again, is there a way to actually print white?"

Is there a way to manufacture the color "White"?

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Any white necessary in a color document is supplied by the white of the paper. Black is the "presence of color" which is why processed black is possible from Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. White is the "absence of color" which is why it can't be printed from Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. That is also why the Brightness of the paper is so important to good color quality. Most full color systems used to assume an absolute white provided by the paper, I don't know if they still do.

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