Printing White on the Anapurna

[dkinsac]

I am new to this, so here goes! When printing on Dibond and there is White in the file, do you simply lay down a flood white layer and then print the Art on top of that? Or do you need to edit the file and call out the white as a spot or something? Thanks!

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Preview the white separation/ink data from the file in the RIP driving the Anapurna. Is it an all over white, basically achieving the same thing as a “flood”? Or are there holes in the white, where the artwork is not calling for white, where the aluminium will show through with no ink or perhaps with say yellow/magenta ink directly on the aluminium to achieve a “spot metallic gold” effect?

If you assume a flood and the artwork was not calling for this, the customer would be entitled to a reprint. Best to understand the expectations of the client and or set a default workflow and file submission criteria upstream, so that you don’t have to ask these questions when the job is lined up for printing.


Stephen Marsh

 

[dkinsac]

It's always something different. On this project we had the Operator Flood it. The file had lots of knock-out white text and art. It turned out Great!