Gold/Silver Ink from PC

[undercovermum]

How do you get a printer to print gold/silver. I have an Epson All in One photo jobby.

Anyone......????

[undercovermum]

Ignore this as I have just phoned our techhies at work and they reckon home printers don't print in golg/silver as they ain't a colour.

[Jayzmummy]

Then your techies at work havent got a clue have they!!!
Tell 'em Auntyquated knows more than they do!!!!

[SoupDragon]

GOLD 204/204/0
GOLD 192/168/104
DARK GOLD 165/138/82
SILVER 151/151/149
SILVER 151/151/168

Numbers refer to (In MS Word) Format, Font, Font colour, More colours, Custom... and then the reference nubers for the Red/Green/Blue boxes respectively.

[SoupDragon]

They're not really gold ad silver as they're non metallic but they're pretty damn good. You'll need to try them to see which prints best in your printer - they print slightly different to how they appear on screen.

[SoupDragon]

I didn't believe it would work so I tried all the combinations and saved the details as a Word document

[Jayzmummy]

If you want to add a metallic look to the gold and silver you can print in bold and if your very quick cover the printed image in gold/silver embossing powder and then heat it, using a heat gun.....works a treat BUT you need to be quick

[undercovermum]

Bloody techhies, probably wanted to get me off phone cos' it wasn't work related.

Thanks ever so much.

[undercovermum]

I have now tried this and was suitably impressed. It is dull though. Now if I read this correctly, was someone putting on embossing powder after they had printed off pc and using heat gun? Or were you using a special printer?

[undercovermum]

Sorry I am brain dead today, have just read the post just under mine. Apologies.

[Ellen23]

Hi anyone managed to get the colours for copper/bronze yet. Tried the gold & silver on red & green card but it didnt work too well.

[Dingle]

For a coppery colour I use 205,115,0.

Have a look on the other thread further down about this and there is a link I put on for a great site- gives you the settings for nearly every colour under the sun!

Happy printing.

[Ellen23]

Hi dingle tried that link for the university but not accessible anymore.

[Dingle]

try this one here

[MrsForgetMeNotFul]

discovered that if you print on pearlised card etc...and set printer to 'best' that it 'almost' passes as metalic writing....almost!