Ability to print in white

I have an HP Officejet J4540. Does anyone know if I can print in white by changing the color settings? I would like to print white letters on dark purple paper.
thank you, DonnaCD
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The printer uses a subtractive process, it cannot print white on a dark background. (The lightest color it can print is no ink at all, which would be the color of the background. You would need a printer with white ink. I do not know of any currently available printers with this capability, I think there used to be an Alps printer that would print white.
Another option would be to print in reverse, printing the purple background on white paper. This would us a lot of ink and may not give the results you want....
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