Printing in white ink.

I know you can't print white using black and color cartridges, I get that, so let's not rehash what everyone already knows... the question is quite simple - has HP ever made a cartridge with WHITE ink to replace black ink cartridges?
I'd like to print white on transparencies, so printing "tricks," like white text on black background so the printer prints around the text doesn't work... it's really simple - have they, or have they even thought of making a white cartridge?
I haven't used ink refillers, but maybe someone has done white?

White ink on black paper (even construction paper) would be much easier to see for sight impaired people.
I teach music and have several student with vision problems. I use Finale® music software and the white paper "glares" wereas the black does not.
Solution? A white ink cartr to replace the black. I have an hp 2400 series printer so one to replace 56.
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You need to specify what printing method you are preparing for. For offset printing, you usuallly don't print the white; you print the black around the white. But nowadays, business cards are done in a variety of printing methods, including for example, screen printing onto plastic cards. Screen printing can print opaque white ink onto a colored substrate. "Gold" could mean anything from a Pantone metallic spot color (offset) to gold foil (letterpress) to an opaque screen ink (screen printing).
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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.
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I understand that you want to print in grey scale. I would like to help you with this.
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How do I preview overprinting white ink (spot color) or a tint thereof?

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I am trying to print an invitation onto green cardstock using just black and white. The text that is supposed to be white will not show up at all, as if it's just not printing it. I've tried variations of extremely light greens, yellows, blues and grays, to which the text still doesn't show up right. I've also tried changing the printer settings to pure black and white, with similar results. Is there a way to get white ink to print??

Hi,
Unfortunaterly no white ink on the printer, it will treate white as paper back ground, in this case green
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