I work for a printing company.

Think of this - why everything is printed mostly in black ink? why not navy blue, or dark hunter green?

Because black is a stock color.

The manufacturer stocks it, and usues it left and right. Most other colors have to be a special order - this comes with increased costs, lead times and paint expiration. If you did not use all of it, paint does expire.

To the printer-happy community let me remind you that painting a jet is not like prining a page where three base inks are used to create a perseption of color. Paint of any color has to be manufactured separately.

So I think that from a manufacturing stand point it is just so much cheaper to use stock white paint.

I work for a printing company.

Think of this - why everything is printed mostly in black ink? why not navy blue, or dark hunter green?

Because black is a stock color.

The manufacturer stocks it, and uses it left and right. Most other colors have to be a special order - this comes with increased costs, lead times and paint expiration. If you did not use all of it, paint does expire.

To the printer-happy community let me remind you that painting a jet is not like printing a page where three base inks are used to create a perception of color. Paint of any color has to be manufactured separately.

So I think that from a manufacturing standpoint it is just so much cheaper to use stock white paint.