Printing in White

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PRINTING IN WHITE

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SECT ION 8 : PR INTING WHITE ONTO DARK STOCKS

With the revolutionary new OKI 711WT laser printer you can now finally print opaque white onto dark card stocks, papers and envelopes. We have customized PrintingPress Pro Extreme to make working with white text and graphic printing easy.

PROJECT SETT INGS

First, you need to tell PrintingPress Pro Extreme that you will be printing using white toner. View your project and click on the Edit Project Settings button in the toolbar. Click on a piece of stationery that you will be printing with white toner and set the Paper Color to Black, the Printer to Laser, and the Print Options to white toner. You need to specify a paper color since white toner will not appear on white paper in Print Preview.

Note that when you create your design, all of your design elements should be black. Black text and graphics will print completely white on top of the colored paper stock, and colors and grays will print


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lighter white using a dot pattern halftoning. We modified the Extreme Wedding Invitations design from the March 2013 Wedding Issue of the Mountaincow Monthly Newsletter. The newsletter project printed a dark ink background onto White Natural Cotton Stock. This modified version of the project has been configured to print using white toner onto black stock, with all of the text and images added in black.

PRINT PREVIEW

Choose Print Preview in the File menu to preview the stationery as it will print on the white toner printer. This special print process is simulated in the Print Preview window so you can make modifications without needing to do a lot of test prints. You may choose to modify existing projects to use more solid black instead of grays and colors for the best results.


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PRINT TO GRAPHICS F ILE

Next, choose Print to Graphics File in the File menu to view the new options which enable you to opt to Show Paper Color and Simulate White Toner. Two additional new options to Add Drop Shadow and Draw Envelope Flap enable you to create more professional looking proofs that match the format displayed in the Online Store stationery slideshows. Try turning these 4 options on and printing your stationery to a graphics file to view the results.


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NOTE: When you choose the Format for Invitation Architect option, the Show Paper Color, Add Drop Shadow and Draw Envelope Flap options are disabled since Invitation Architect will already be displaying the paper color, drop shadow and envelope flap lines when you apply a printed panel to a layer. You can still use the Simulate White Toner option when creating a graphics file for Invitation Architect by selecting the Make White Transparent option so the opaque white toner for text and images appears on the paper color but not the background.


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PRINTER SETT INGS

Next, choose Print in the File menu as usual and select OKI 711WT in the printer list. Click on the Properties button, click on the Paper/Quality tab set the Paper Source to Multi-Purpose Tray for feeding cards and envelopes.

Next, click on the Advanced button and set the Media Type to Ultra Heavy 3 to slow the feed mechanism and avoid paper jams.


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Click on the Paper Size combo box, choose Postscript Custom Paper Size and the PostScript Custom Page Size Definition window will appear. Select the Inches option in the Unit section and specify the size in inches of the card you are printing. If you are printing an envelope one pass with the flap open, specify a height that is taller than the width of the envelope.

Click on the OK button to save your paper size and click on the OK button to close the Advanced Options window. Next, click the Job Options tab and make sure that the Mirror Print option is turned off.

Next, click the Color tab and make sure Gray Scale (White) Print is turned on. This tells the printer to treat your black, gray and colored text as if it were shades of white.


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We recommend that you permanently configure some of these settings (especially disabling the Mirror Print option) in the printer driver so that you do not need to set them every time you print. Click on the Windows Start menu and choose Devices and Printers and then right-click on the OKI C711WT printer icon and choose the Printing Preferences option in the popup menu that appears. Modify any of the settings that you want to be permanently enabled and click Apply to save the settings.

Once you have configured all of the custom settings, click on the OK button to close the OKI C711 WT Document Properties window and click on the OK button in the Print window in PrintingPress Pro Extreme 7.0. If you are printing onto any size other than 8.5 x 11 inches, the printer will wait for you to press the On Line button on the printer control panel to confirm that you have put the correct size paper into the manual feed tray.

We recommend you change the settings on your printer so that you do not have to press the On Line button every time you print onto stationery that is smaller than 8.5 x 11 inches. Press the top Menu button (with a ^ on it) on the printer control panel, select Menus and press the Enter button (with a on it). Select Tray Configuration and press the Enter button. Use the bottom Menu button (with a on it) to scroll to the bottom of the list, select MP Tray Config and press the Enter button. Select Tray Usage and press the Enter button. Select Do Not Use and press the Enter button. Press the Back button repeatedly until you see the Ready To Print message and try printing the 5x7 card again.

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