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12-05-2019 04:19 PM
Trying to color print on black card stock paper on my Officejet 8720 from MS Word / Powerpoint, but no colors print. Only black prints on black paper which is clearly not useful. Thought maybe it was a font issue, so I tried an image, but no luck. Tried setting the paper color to black in MS Word; no luck. What gives? Is this think simply unable to print on black paper?!
12-06-2019 12:36 AM
The black paper absorbs colour, the white paper reflects colour, maybe your printer prints on black paper but because of black paper, it's almost invisible.
You can't expect a yellow colour to be the same intensity on black paper and on white paper.
Does it print yellow on white paper?
12-06-2019 12:08 PM
Yes it does. A bit more research on the topic reveals that I would need to replace the black ink cartridge with white ink cartridge to print on black paper. HP doesn't offer/support a white cartridge for this printer. I'll need to try a different (likely professional) printing method.