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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Tank on December 16, 2017, 04:54:34 AM

Title: Using white
Post by: Tank on December 16, 2017, 04:54:34 AM

Sorry if this sounds stupid but lets say I made a logo, and in the design I used a white shape (cmyk0000)to obscure part of another shape or colour then sent that to scribus or gave it directly to the printer who was printing on white paper, would you be able to see it? or would the white be just void of colour effectively being treated as transparent ...hope that makes sense.

Kind Regards

T.

Title: Re: Using white
Post by: Lazur on December 16, 2017, 04:59:56 AM

Hi.

Regular printers don't have white ink, just cian magenta yellow and black (hence cmyk). The white you see is the white of the paper.
If you wanted to use spot colours like white, you'd need a special printer -like a silkscreen- and separate the image to channels/draw in that colour space.

Title: Re: Using white
Post by: Tank on December 16, 2017, 06:20:31 AM

Thanks Lazur,

Got it!

Best Regards

T.