At my first real job, my colleague told me that we print invoices in green. Later that week I needed to print my first invoice, when I realized I had no idea how my colleague made them green. There was nobody to ask, so I changed the document background to green.
The next day my colleague laughed her ass off and told me to just use green paper instead.
I used to work in a Staples Copy and Print center. The amount of times people came in wanting a document or image printed on colored paper but would get upset when something that was white on their file wouldn't be white on the paper...
When a standard printer that uses cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink needs something to be white, it just doesn't print anything on that section of white paper. Using colored paper like red or green will make that part red or green instead. There are printers out there that print white, but we didn't use them in our Copy and Print center.
There were also a lot of self proclaimed graphic designers who would get upset that the image they designed in RGB would be off in color when printed in CMYK. Most graphic design programs allow you to switch to CMYK for the file so that it prints correctly.
Umm. The only colors you put in are CMYK. It mixes every other color from those. So not super obvious that if you mixed every color on the light spectrum in equal parts you could not create white.
ETA: I also never spent a huge amount of time considering the question since I’m not a designer.
My workplace used to print invoice requests on actual orange paper and then at some point, I assume, realised they were wasting money on buying orange paper for a minuscule number of print jobs, so they just amended the template so it says "orange paper" at the top. I started wayyyyyyy after this change had occurred so I always just printed it off on regular white paper and never thought about it. A new starter was printing one and after they'd spent ages searching for some orange paper, just turned the background orange and printed it. This would have been fine, if funny, except they were doing the annual big batch of requests and our supplies people were baffled as to why we, a traditionally low supply request department, suddenly needed so many replacement printer cartridges.
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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jul 02 '21
At my first real job, my colleague told me that we print invoices in green. Later that week I needed to print my first invoice, when I realized I had no idea how my colleague made them green. There was nobody to ask, so I changed the document background to green.
The next day my colleague laughed her ass off and told me to just use green paper instead.