![]() These are places that have a lot of DIYers who don't have the money to afford equipment or space for themselves, so they band together to pool their resources. These machines can often be found at maker/hacker-spaces. This can also allow you to rapidly recreate your project. Just like anything else, it's a mixed bag of how people use things. I haven't used one myself, but I hear lots of people like them, as well as some people dislike them. There's a variety of these machines around as well, but a popular desktop version is a Cricut. Unfortunately, it doesn't do tiny or sharp corners or backtracks well, or at least easily. A K40 (40 watt), for example, is only a couple hundred dollars and is small enough to fit on a desk.Ī vinyl or paper cutter can do most of the same paper cutting as a laser can, but it'll have the scissor-like lack of kerf. They also give you the ability to rapidly reproduce your items. They make clean, crisp lines with just the smallest kerf, usually less than a millimeter. I normally use a 80-100 watt laser, but I've used a 40 watt to do smaller items. It can leave very little residue when cutting something as thin as paper and it can cut it very cleanly, with the right settings. I use a laser cutter to cut a lot of things, from acrylic sheets to leather and paper. ![]() You already have a PDF, so you should be able to open it in a variety of software to send it to one of these machines. Use a laser cutter, or vinyl or paper cutter to do your work. I'll go with a completely different idea. I'm not really so sure what the market looks like for this anymore, but many, many years ago I had an Alps printer that could do this - print in white, or print in white then another color to make the color stand out on black. If this is something you may need to do regularly, it might be worth looking into dye-sublimation printers.Otherwise, anything that's white on screen will not trigger any cartridge or tank to print anything. In some software, you can also re-key your color space to CMYW rather than CMYK (though the K stands for key regardless of the color, it's typically black and so CMYW is a common placeholder for K = white). The easiest way is to replace black with white and make what you want white appear black on screen. With most software, even artists software, you typically cannot just have white on screen and print it as such.Even in printers designed specifically to use pigment-based inks, white can still be difficult to work with and require much more care and maintenance. In some it'll work but will jam up the print heads rapidly. In some inkjet printers, it simply won't work. ![]() White will typically be a pigment-based ink rather than a dye-based ink as pigment will generally be more visible on darker colored papers. Epson actually makes white ink for some select high-end printers. In many cases this is due to the manufacturing of the ink itself. Not all printers will work well when this is done.However, there are some very important notes. Generally you can print with white ink in many inkjet printers.
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