CMYK

A color model used with printers and other peripherals. The ink of the four colors, cyan (C), magenta (M) yellow (Y), black (K), are combined to produce all colors. In theory, it is possible to produce all colors by combining cyan, magenta and yellow. However, in practice these colors often cannot produce true black. Therefore, black ink is added in order to clearly produce black.

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