a printer has a colored ink and a black ink. what mix of colors would create the color WHITE?

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thank you very much for sharing all your answers.

got an email from a friend for me to check the wikipedia. got this answer.

White is the colour of things that reflect light of all parts of the visible spectrum equally and are not dull (see Grey)

The color (more accurately, it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. The impression of white light can be created by mixing (via a process called "additive mixing") appropriate intensities of the primary color spectrum: red, green and blue, but it must be noted that the illumination provided by this technique has significant differences from that produced by incandescence

Answer 1

THE PRINTER HAS BESIDES THE BLACK CARTRIDGE, THE ONE FOR CYAN, MAGENTA AND YELLOW. THAT PRODUCES ALL THE COLORS IN THE PICTURE, HOWEVER IN THOSE PARTS WHERE WHITE IS SUPOUSED TO BE, THE PRINTER SKIPS ALL INKS, SHOWING THE BASE OF THE PAPER, WHICH IN MOST OF THE CASES IS WHITE.
TRY USING A COLORED PAPER, YOU WILL HAVE NO WHITE COLOR.

Answer 2

Don't know why everybody thinks you can! I've got a Canon and when I completely ran out of black it refused to print until the black cartridge was replaced. Modern printers now require all the cartridges to have ink in them to print. They are now more sophisticated than they were even 3 years ago! Black now is only a base colour. Surprisingly there are many shades of black. Computers now can produce 16,000,000 colours and modern printers have to accommodate that. Especially for photographs and complicated art work! Even printing in Grey Scale now requires all the Colours to print. So don't be surprised if the printer actually stops halfway through printing when the black cartridge finally runs completely dry!

Answer 3

There arwe some really ridiculous answers above but the one immediately above me has it right. In real life, white light has ALL the colours and black has NO colours at all. However, artificial colouring is different. A printer will leave NO INK AT ALL when it wants to show pure white - or your paper colour. Full marks to the answer above. Ignore anything that tells you otherwise!!!

Answer 4

A very good question.

If you include black ink, you will negate all possibility of creating white ink. I think it is not possible at the moment?

I think you will have to use the standard method of using white paper, but that is not answering your question, as you may be thinking of using coloured paper, and printing white ink on it.

You might have to go to the computer shop and ask for special white ink.

Answer 5

The mixture of blue,green and red colour will give you white.But if you're printing on a white paper,the printer will leave the white area blank for the white colour of the paper to show.

Answer 6

Hmmmm now that's a good question, I just always assumed the printer just skipped that part of the paper and left it white, I'm almost guessing that's the answer, but we'll see what the others say.

Answer 7

You cannot mix any colors to get white. White is a stand alone colour

Answer 8

I would imagine the printer just leaves the white parts blank on the paper. Good Question though.

Answer 9

if the printer was out of ink completely then the result would be white. or if you only use white ink.

What the hell do you mean white isn't a color you dummy. LOL

Answer 10

all of them but you'd probably have to mix the whole colour spectrum not just 4 samples of colour that'd just be a mess. don't you think that's why the paper we usually print onto is white!