When working with white ink you can choose the workflow that best fits your needs. There are three main approaches to white ink workflow with your printer:
Flood Fill Layer - uses the Flood Fill Layer Configuration.
Onyx Spot Layer Tool - generate the white spot data in ProductionHouse.
Spot Data (pre-defined) - spot data is created in image editing application such as Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop.
This section documents the Flood Fill Layer approach. The next two sections document the other two approaches.
The Flood Fill Layer allows you to print an image with a white flood fill as an underlay an overlay. The edges of the image bounding box (the outer perimeter of the image) will determine the extent of the flood fill area.
This approach is used when an image to be printed is rectangular in shape and requires a white flood fill. The printer itself provides the white flood fill rather than the ONYX Spot Layer Tool or an image editing application, so no additional data preparation is required.
NOTE
If jobs are nested in the ONYX software, white is printed between jobs when you use this technique because the outer extent of the entire nested job is used to define the flood area.
NOTE
The file must be sized at the final output dimensions required for the flood.
To define a layer as a white flood layer first select Quality-Layered as the Printer Print Mode, then select Define Layers and finally define a white flood layer.
Layers can be defined at any of the following locations when a job is processed:
Defined in the media when the media is created - Mode Options
Selected in a Quick Set - Media Options
Modify the printer settings of a processed job in RIP Queue - right-click the job, edit printer settings.
NOTE
If you want to print first surface (e.g., on opaque media) the bottom and middle layers can be configured to be white flood layers and the top layer to be a CMYK data layer. If you want to print second surface (e.g., transparent media viewed from the side that does not have ink on it), then the bottom layer should be a CMYK data layer and the middle and top layers are white flood layers.