White ink on black. Finally.
Every designer has had this conversation: you want white type on a deep black board, and you’re told it’s foil or it’s nothing. It’s now neither. We print opaque white toner straight onto Colorplan.
Pick a mode. We do the rest.
White only
Your colours become tones of white, so a photo comes through as a white duotone and the stock does the rest.
CMYK + white undercoat
White first, full colour on top — vivid, accurate colour on a dark sheet instead of mud.
Spot white
White printed over the CMYK as a deliberate element. The only mode that needs file prep.
Black only
Worth saying: these stocks look superb with nothing but black. Not every Colorplan job needs white.
Dyed right through.
135gsm and 270gsm in all eight. 350gsm in seven of them — no Amethyst.
Swatches are approximate on screen — ask for a stock selector to see the real thing.
Where it’s worth using.
- Business cards on black. The classic, and still the best argument for it.
- Invitations and event stationery. Minimal white on a deep colour, at fifty copies.
- Sleeves, folders and menus. Dark board, light artwork, no foil bill.
- Prototyping. One copy is a real quantity here.
“At Revolution Print, we are unapologetically print geeks, constantly looking to create the future of print.”
Leon Wilson · Print21, 2022Setting up the file
White only / undercoat
No special setup. Send a normal print-ready file and tell us the mode.
Spot white
Make a spot swatch at 100% cyan named exactly “White”. The spelling matters.
Only where white prints
Apply it on a clearly named layer of its own.
Everything else as normal
2mm bleed, vector text, high-res images, press-ready PDF.
How we do it
White toner and the laser cutter together is where this gets interesting: architectural cut-outs that reveal the colour underneath, windows through a sleeve, shaped invitations. White artwork on a deep colour, cut to a shape no die would justify at your quantity — both in the same job. Try it yourself in our Print It In White app.
