Colorplan Wedding Invitations
Colorplan is dyed through the sheet, which is the whole reason it appears in so many suites here: cut it, fold it, drill it or die-cut an aperture in it and the exposed core is the same colour as the face. That makes it the default for dark and saturated suites, and the stock that makes a duplex core stripe possible in more than fifty shades.
What people actually ask
- What does dyed through mean?
- The colour is in the pulp, not printed on the surface. The trimmed edge, the fold and any cut-out show the same colour as the face — no white line anywhere.
- Can Colorplan be letterpressed?
- Yes, and it takes a blind deboss especially well. On the darkest shades the impression alone is often the design, since ink printed on top would read muddy anyway.
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If your suite is navy, oxblood, forest or black, start with Colorplan. The colour is dyed through the sheet rather than printed onto it, so the edge you trim, the score you fold and the aperture you die-cut all read the same shade as the face. That one property is why it turns up in more of the suites here than any other stock, and why it's the base for a duplex core stripe in more than fifty shades.
A dark suite on white stock gives away its edges
Print heavy coverage onto a white sheet and the guillotine tells on you. Every trimmed edge shows a hairline of white core, every fold cracks into a pale line, and the pinhole you drill for a ribbon becomes a bright dot in the middle of your ink.
Colorplan is dyed through, so there is no core to expose. Cut it, fold it, drill it, punch an aperture for a monogram or a vellum window, and the inside of the sheet matches the outside. That is the whole argument for it, and it holds up in the hand at arm's length as well as under a loupe.
Duplex two sheets and the seam becomes a design element
Bond two Colorplan sheets back to back and you get a thicker card with a visible line where they meet. Because both sheets are dyed through, that line is a clean band of colour rather than a smear of adhesive. Choose a matching shade and the edge reads as one solid slab. Choose a contrast and you get a core stripe: a blush line inside charcoal, a citrus line inside navy.
With more than fifty shades in the range, the stripe is a real palette decision, not a novelty. Pull the two colours from your suite so the edge repeats something on the face.
The landmine is ink opacity, not the paper
Colour that is dyed through means colour underneath everything you print. Standard inks are translucent by design; they mix with what sits below them. On a saturated Colorplan sheet, pale artwork sinks and vanishes, and a delicate script can disappear entirely.
So on dark shades we plan for opaque decoration from the start: foil, an opaque ink laid down with pressure, or debossing that uses the paper's own colour as the mark. Send us your artwork with the shade you're considering and we'll tell you which method carries your line weights before you commit to a colour.
Common questions
You can, but the edges and folds report it. Coverage stops at the surface, so trims show a white core and scores crack pale. Colorplan is dyed through the sheet, so a trimmed edge, a folded spine and a drilled ribbon hole all stay the same colour as the face.
Need the entire invitation suite drawn?
Invitation, RSVP, details and envelope composed for this stock and finish, with press-ready files for each piece.