Why the Roland BN2-20A doesn't need white ink to show white
The Roland BN2-20A is a four-cartridge CMYK printer, so it has no way to physically print white ink. What looks like white in a finished print is actually the raw material showing through in the areas the printer intentionally left unprinted. On a full set of graduation banners, every white script letter and white detail was created this way, using the material itself rather than ink.
For the complete written walkthrough, see How to Get White in your Roland Prints Without White Ink
How the trick actually works
There's no special setting to turn on. If a design has white elements in it — designed in a program like Canva, for example — VersaWorks will simply not print ink in those areas when the file is sent to print. The printer prints CMYK ink around the white shapes, and the untouched material underneath shows through as white. As long as the banner or vinyl material itself is white, this works automatically every time.
When you might actually need white ink
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This trick only works because most printable materials are already white to begin with. If a project is printed on a colored or dark material, there's no white surface left to show through, and that's the one situation where a white ink cartridge — available on the five-channel Roland BN2-20 — actually becomes necessary.
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