What Does Overprint Stroke Mean

With overprinting though, once the “overprint fill” and/or “overprint stroke” settings get toggled, the first color will be printed, and then the second color will print directly on top of that, so you’ll see a blend of the two colors instead of two colors each in their pure, unblended, intended state.

What does overprint mean in printing?

So, “what is overprint?” Simply put, overprint is when colours are printed directly over each other which causes mixing of colours. This mixing of colours results in a different colour. For example, if yellow ink is set to overprint on top of the cyan print, the overlap would create green.

What is overprint stroke in Illustrator?

What is Overprinting? When you create label artwork with objects of different colors overlapping, usually they’ll knockout – meaning they won’t print on top of each other. If you intentionally print an object of one color over an object of another, this is ‘overprinting.