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Four-Color Process Printing

Simulating the colors in a continuous tone color image by printing with process colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.

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CMYK

This is an acronym for the four process color inks used in 4-color printing: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Although the K commonly stands for black it does not have to. K is for "Key" plate. The Key plate holds the detail for the printed image, in 4-color printing this is usually black ink.