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The range of color reproduction | |||||
Visible light contains several million colors, but not all of them can be reproduced by your computer monitor or by the printer's ink. | |||||
Monitors and scanners that use the three RGB primary colors, and color printers and printed matter that use the three CMY primary colors, each have a different range of reproducible colors. | |||||
CMY has the narrowest range of reproducibility. RGB colors that look wonderful on a computer screen sometimes become hazy when converted to CMY (or CMYK) for a color printout. This is because the image on the screen contained colors that cannot be reproduced in CMYK. | |||||
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