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There are times I would like to be able to print white type or graphics on colored stock. But pigment white is too dense to be used in an ink jet printer. I wonder if an intense UV laser would bleach the color from colored stock to permit printing white on color. It might require special paper stock which, again, might fade quickly with time and light exposure unless some sort of fixative coating could be applied.
sand, Jun 03 2008
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A slight variation on the idea using ink jet would be to use a bleach chemical instead of ink.
i think you may be able to do it with a solid ink printer technology, but the uv light idea, which i assume is based on the common effect of sunlight fading, but the problem is that when you intensify the uv light, you intensify the resulting heat, so you would probable burn through the paper just as quickly as you would fade any pigment