Printing with White and Clear Toner
Digitalpress
Step-by-Step Guide for White Ink Printing
on the OKI C941dn
Digitalpress can now let you demonstrate your creativity by offering white ink
printing.
Using
this step-by-step,
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materials on a wide range of media in CMYK plus White or Clear gloss toner.
The C941dn not only gives you the opportunity to produce vibrant mockups, stationery, invitations, brochures, packaging prototypes, point-of-sale
material, watermarks, window graphics, labels, etc., but to do so quickly and
easily—as well as cost-effectively.
Step 1 – Adobe Indesign
In the pages that follow, seeCreate
step-by-step
instructions
file
a new
colourfor
swatch,
make it red and name it “SpotColor_
preparation and printing—toWhite”.
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Note:
and underscore sensitive. Making it red
results from your C941dn. helps to see it on the page and it is the colour used by Digitalpress
This guide assumes that theprinters.
C941dn driver has been
installed from the disc provided with your printer.
Also, drivers can be downloaded from www.okidata.com.
Contents:
Printing from a PC
Printing from a Mac®
Fiery® XF User Info
Adobe Photoshop® File Prep
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Adobe® InDesign® File Prep
Adobe Illustrator File Prep
Creating a High-Res PDF
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Step 2 – Adobe Indesign
Apply the SpotColor_White to your design
White ink
text
Step 3 – Adobe Illustrator
Do the same in Illustratrator, create a the colour and name
it “SpotColor_White” apply it to your artwork.
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Step 4 – Adobe Photoshop
Create a spot colour channel and name it “SpotColor_
White” and copy the items that you want to print in white
into the channel.
Step 5 – Create a hires pdf
Place everything into Indesign and export as a High Quality
Print PDF file with crop marks and 3mm bleed all around.
Send the file to Digitalpress for White Ink printing.
For any further technical questions about white ink
printing contact [email protected]