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Printing blue ink on black cardstock?!?!

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    tams084    September 19, 2009   Adventure Aquarium NJ

    I'm trying to print my menu cards. We bought black cardstock and want to print baby blue ink on them... it goes through the printer as if it's printing correctly, but comes out blank! Any idea how to get the ink to show up??

     
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    SCCRNE1    October 3, 2009   Southern California

    Some bad news, you can't print on black paper.  You need a special printer to print on black paper (i.e. a professional printer).  If you had white card stock, in your design program you could make the background black with a black box and the text blue, then print the whole thing and then you would see it.

     
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    Lovespearls    June 13, 2010   New York & DC & Austin

    Gocoos and Yudus will also be able to accomplish this if your willing to go for that.

     
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    poodle    April 1, 2010   California / Planning Process in Chile

    You can also stap or stencil, but you do need to make a trial with the paint first just to make sure you can read it ;)

     
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    bruschetta    August 29, 2009   Philadelphia

    Could you print it on light-colored paper and then affix that to the darker cardstock?

     
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    Laurlyn    September 19, 2009   Chicago

    @tams  Hi wedding date twin!  Since light ink on dark paper is a no go for you and looks like you are tight on time ;-) I'd say use the black cardstock as a backer and print black ink on a light blue cardstock... paste them onto the black cardstock to tie it all together (and not let the black paper go to waste!). 

     
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    chicagobride092010    January 2010   Canada

    Get a gocco!

     
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    KMSull    August 7, 2010   Lexington, KY (via Atlanta, GA)

    What about embossing? If you could somehow make a stamp (maybe break the text up into pieces) and use opaque ink and embossing powder, it could be done with less effort than with a gocco!

     

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