[Ham-Computers] How do you print white letters?

[Philip, KO6BB]

Gene,

If I understand "colors" and things correctly, it goes something like this.

1.  "White Light" is a mixture of all colors, while Black would be an 
absence of all colors.  That is light, and would be true even on a CRT or 
LCD screen.

2.  When it comes to printing, things are rather the reverse.  Black print 
is a mixture of all colors, while 'white' would be the absence of any color 
at all, hence, nothing would be printed.  White is presumed to come from the 
whiteness of the paper and I don't think that the printer companies ever 
anticipated that anyone would want to actually "print" white, though I seem 
to remember some early "ribbon" dot matrix printers that had a white stripe 
on the ribbon.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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----- Original Message ----- 

>I am experimenting with making some labels and have tried to print white 
>letters (on blue paper) using MS Word 97.
>
> I can set the page background to blue so I can see what is typed in white, 
> but when I print the page nothing shows up.
>
> Is printing in white a function of the printer or the program software, or 
> both?
>
> TIA
>
> 73
>
> Gene, WØQFC