Help: printing on black paper, how do i get black not to print

HI,

I am a newbie so excuse me if this question is too basic. I have an image on a black background and have black paper to print to.How do I print only the image without printing the black background. Have tried looking through the forum and faqs and help without any luck.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Naylin

Change the background to White, or turn off the background layer (first convert it to a layer by Alt double clicking on it). Printers don't print white.

Peace,
Tony

invert the image?

Printing on black paper isn't going to work, unless there's one that works with paint, in stead of ink.

Rob

Thanks Rob,

Tried the above and just found that out.

Cheers

Naylin

Hadn't thought of that Rob, but you're right. <slaps forehead>

<slaps forehead>

We call that a "D'oh!" in the industry. :)

slaps forehead

Isn't it time for bed on the westcoast?

Darn! it's August 24 here already!

Rob

westcoast

No, Chicago. Even later <smile>.

Well this is New Zealand, its almost the 25th already..

Oh good one Tim. Good stupid question and moniker! (now that I've Joojled it!)

this is New Zealand

Then we're 20,000 kilometres apart. And from my perspective, you're upside down. :-)

Rob

Nothing.

What about those ALPS wax stick printers?

I think they even have white wax sticks.

Heh...sorry, didn't mean to complicate the issue...

:)

It probably won't complicate the issue much, because as far as I can tell, the chance that anyone is printing to one of those is pretty slim. (Although I'd have said the same thing of 'black paper').

You're correct that they can be loaded with white thermal-transfer "ink" as well as various spot and metallic colors. They don't mix color well, though, so just about anyone who needs to print continuous-tone images abandoned their ALPS printers long ago.

Interestingly, they have a niche market among hobbyists, who use them for "spot" output of vector designs on wet-transfer decal paper. The white and metallic capabilities make the APLS a unique and useful solution in that application.

I dunno, John...I've never seen an ALPS printer in real life.

But back maybe 4 or 5 years ago when they were being advertised heavily the images in the adverts showed some pretty dang nice output of photo-quality images. I was quite temped to buy one, party because the pigment sticks were so cheap compared to inkjet ink and laser toner.

Phosphor,
I had an Alps dye-sub for awhile, but abandoned it when the 1270 came out. Some of the units had constant banding problems, etc, but they turned out nice pics when all was well .

:-)

Brent