Printing white on colored paper

I am trying to print a black and white photograph on stationery with a green plaid background. The plaid shows through on the white portions of the photo. I tried putting a white layer behind the photo with 100% opacity but it didn't work. I haven't been able to find an answer to this problem. I'm using PSE 3 on a Mac.
Thank you in advance to anyone with a solution.

Colin,
>As a work around you could scan in your stationary and then super impose your image onto that.
I never cease to be amazed by the creativity one finds on this forum. If there's a way to get it done someone, very often you, will come up with it.
Bob

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I have the same problem. The printer seems to sense the paper before printing and if it's pastel, is feeds that sheet through and every other one until it finds a pure white one, then it prints. I tried different paper type settings under printer properties before printing but no luck.
I got tired of wasting paper and ink so in the end I took a print out on plain white paper and photocopied it onto the pastel paper. That worked fine.
This tells me that the printer driver is messed up or I did not manage to hit on the right paper type setting for the paper I was trying to use.
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Hi - You might try setting the Paper Type to Plain Paper rather than Automatic. Sometimes the color can throw off the paper sensors. In whatever app you're in, click File, Print and then there should be a Preferences or Options button, click that and you should be able to find the Paper Type option.
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