Color print outs on color
 

Gosh all of you are so great on the printer, computer and Photoshop, I feel very untrained. I do have a question and hope this is the place for it. I wish to put my prints of my work onto a colored background.

Let me explain; first I do a printout of my work on glossy photo paper (HP premium plus photo paper). I have a portfolio that is done only in burgundy and cream. I think artwork looks best on dark background or at least most oils look richer. I have burgundy linen cardstock that I cut and place one of my printouts onto it (a 4x5 or 5x7) with a border of burgundy.

Now, what I would like to do it print the picture directly onto the burgundy stock so I do not have to dry mount the photo onto it. Of course, when I tried to print a photo onto the stock, it showed through. I would love to back the photo someway on my PC so the burgundy would not show through. Do you follow me at all? I do not have the fancy Photoshop or anything like that and do all my own marketing packets etc. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Since there is no white ink in printers, and since printer inks are transparent, any burgundy paper you print on will always show.

You could, however, surround your images with a burgundy border which prints on the white paper at the same time as the image. Whatever software you use to send your images to the printer probably has the capability of allowing you to do this.

Regarding Michele's suggestion, it was the same thing I was going to say. The only thing that I would add is that you won't be able to print as a bleed if you ever do a larger print and will need to still trim off some white.

Thanks to you both Cynthia and Michele. I see what you are saying about the transparent ink. I am always trying to improvise and also try various techniques to improve my present portfolio. I really need to send them off but to have them printed would be very expensive as I wish to do several different painting prints of them.

Thanks anyway and I will try what you said.