White ink on black. Finally.
Every designer has had this conversation: you want white type on a deep black board, and you’re told it’s foil or it’s nothing. It’s now neither. We print opaque white toner straight onto Colorplan.
Pick a mode. We do the rest.
White only
Your colours become tones of white, so a photo comes through as a white duotone and the stock does the rest.
CMYK + white undercoat
White first, full colour on top — vivid, accurate colour on a dark sheet instead of mud.
Spot white
White printed over the CMYK as a deliberate element. The only mode that needs file prep.
Black only
Worth saying: these stocks look superb with nothing but black. Not every Colorplan job needs white.
Design it, spin it in 3D, then order.
Pick a size and a laser-cut shape, choose your Colorplan colour, add your artwork and turn it around in 3D before you order.
- 1Choose a size
- 2Pick a laser-cut shape
- 3Choose a Colorplan colour
- 4Add your artwork and see it in 3D
The paper behind the colour.
Colorplan is GF Smith’s collection of coloured papers and boards, and one of the best-known coloured stocks in design. The colour is dyed right through the sheet rather than printed on top, so the cut edge matches the face.
GF Smith makes it in a wide range of colours, finishes and weights. We hold the eight that suit white toner best.
Dyed right through.
135gsm and 270gsm in all eight. 350gsm in seven of them — no Amethyst.
Swatches are approximate on screen — ask for a stock selector to see the real thing.
Where it’s worth using.
- Business cards on black. The classic, and still the best argument for it.
- Invitations and event stationery. Minimal white on a deep colour, at fifty copies.
- Sleeves, folders and menus. Dark board, light artwork, no foil bill.
- Prototyping. Short runs are a real option here.
- A unique booklet cover. White on a deep Colorplan cover makes a booklet impossible to mistake for anything else.
“At Revolution Print, we are unapologetically print geeks, constantly looking to create the future of print.”
Leon Wilson · Excerpt from an article in Print21 magazineSetting up the file
White only / undercoat
No special setup. Send a normal print-ready file and tell us the mode.
Spot white
Make a spot swatch at 100% cyan named exactly “White”. The spelling matters.
Only where white prints
Apply it on a clearly named layer of its own.
Everything else as normal
2mm bleed, vector text, high-res images, press-ready PDF.
How we do it
White toner and the laser cutter together is where this gets interesting: architectural cut-outs that reveal the colour underneath, windows through a sleeve, shaped invitations. White artwork on a deep colour, cut to a shape no die would justify at your quantity — both in the same job. Want to try it yourself first?
