How do I set up white ink on Clear and Bright Metallic Silver roll labels?

How do I set up white ink on Clear and Bright Metallic Silver roll labels?
January 1, 2018 admin

With Clear Labels, you have the option to use white ink as your base color so your prints can be opaque in some areas and transparent in others. With Bright Metallic Silver, white ink will hide the foil material to make solid colors.

Similar to Spot UV masks, White Mask files are separate from your artwork files and Black color indicates where the white ink will print.

Make sure to create your mask file the same size as your color art file. This will prevent alignment issues during printing.

Note: White Masks must be made in vector form as shapes and be saved as EPS or PDF.

Use vector paths/shapes to create black color areas that will indicate where the white ink base will go. The rest of the area will represent the Metallic or Transparent label stock.

Here is a sample of a printed clear label with white ink. First how the artwork and white mask files look like, then the result from these files:

ARTWORK FILE

MASK FILE

RESULT