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How Are Full-color Images Printed?
by Sandy Cusak, staff writer —
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MYK refers to the printing inks used in four-color (full-color) process printing. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black are the colors used to produce full-color photographs and designs. Here's an approximate representation of these colors:

Colors of the rainbow
These colors can be combined and printed to emulate a wide number of other colors. If you look very closely at a color photograph that you've printed, you'll see that it's made up of tiny dots. The dots work together to fool your eye into seeing a full spectrum of colors.

Doing it right
For your computer to accurately tell your color printer how to reproduce a color image, the image should be in the CMYK color format. If you have to, you can print an image in RGB color and your printer will give it's best guess on how to reproduce it.

However
If you want a text or fill color to match a color from one of your images, you may want to use an RGB color image. The reason is that, Word will only let you choose RGB colors for text and fills. If you leave everything in RGB mode, you should have an easier time making things match.

But, wait . . .
So, why do we refer to these four ink colors as CMYK and not CMYB? Well, quite simply, it's so that no one will be confused into thinking that the last color is Blue rather than Black.

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