Printing on Colored Paper


Depth. Consistency. Practicality. Turning to colored paper is one of the easiest ways to add value to a project. You can get the appearance of more color — or you can use the sheet itself to enhance or alter your imagery. If you know what to expect, colored paper can do anything you can imagine.


tip one

Go light

Use a light-colored sheet to add depth to photography. Just be sure to adjust your images to compensate for the paper’s existing tint. Or don’t… The results might be fun.

tip two

The magic touchplates

Many presses are built with extra ink units, so you can add more colors. Make specific image areas pop, build density in shadows, get smoother solids or add match select colors for perfect accuracy.

tip three

Start with an opaque slate

Use opaque inks to mask the effects of colored paper showing through translucent inks. A base of opaque white, for example, becomes a blank canvas for 4-color images — and still lets you celebrate the tinted page.
 
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