HP Scitex FB500 - Quick tour

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1 - Introduction
This guide will show you how to get started printing with white ink. It assumes that your printer is
installed, it has been upgraded to work with white ink, and that white ink is loaded and ready to
print. If your printer needs to be upgraded, contact your HP representative.
This guide includes the following topics:
• How printing with white ink works in the printer, design applications, and RIPs
• How to design for white ink in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
• How to print jobs with white ink via the Caldera and Onyx RIPs
• White ink profile selection (flowchart)
• Troubleshooting
Other graphic design software may have similar capabilities and procedures. Refer to the software
documentation for details.
This images throughout this document were captured using Windows XP and Adobe Creative Suite
3. Other operating systems or software versions may have a slightly different appearance.
Related documentation
• White Ink Example Files Tutorial
• HP Scitex FB500/FB700 Printer User Guide
Printing with white ink
When equipped with the White Ink Upgrade Kit, the printer can print white ink and color ink in any of
three methods, depending on the intended application and media to be used:
• An Underflood is when the white is placed under the color ink, typically used for printing on
non-white opaque media such as black.
• An Overflood prints the white ink over the color ink and is normally used when the printed
image will be viewed from the reverse side through clear media.
• In Spot mode, the white and color inks are printed on the same plane, in-line with each other.
This mode is used for some backlit applications and printing white ink only on colored opaque
media.