: How to color separate white to be the last to print in CMYK printer Shown below is my white target and exact image to color separate. I use only 4 spots of color, including white, for my

@Nimeshi706

You may not need white here at all.

Seems to me simple tints of spot colors can achieve the desired results:



The only reason white would be necessary is if the substrate was not white. In that case, you'd print white first and then overprint the other colors on top of white to ensure color accuracy. Colors on a non-white substrate will darken. You would print a white shape which encompasses everything, then overprint the same tints on top of the white.



I suppose if you are running opaque inks (and white is pretty much always an opaque ink) you may overprint white.



As for the order of the plates, that's for the pressman to plan and work out. It's his/her job. Designers shouldn't be concerned with the order in which plates are run, only that the artwork separates properly.

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@Kevin459

From what I understand from your question so far you want to make part of your artwork have a separate color.

I'm still waiting for you to update your question with more specifics.

This is how you separate a color.


You would have to first create the white spot color in your swatches
Change the object you want to be that spot color.
Check your color separations with whatever proprietary tools you have to do so.

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@Margaret771

It's actually already in the comments, but in CMYK printing the only white is the plain paper. If you have a porous paper, thin white lines and dots easily vanish due the spreading of the inks.

High gloss photo paper and high quality inks can allow smaller white details than the lower quality ones.

Do some tests. Find the minimum printable white stroke widths and dot diameters for future prints. Have four rectangles. One 100% C, one 100% M, one 100& Y and one 100% black. Have different white lines and dots over them.

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