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Print Media Academy

Color printing: Four printing inks – one picture! •

To produce a color print, each printing ink requires a special printing form. Each printing form is printed using the relevant process color: black (K) – cyan (C) – magenta (M) – yellow (Y) Printing is mainly in the color sequence K-C-M-Y, wet-on-wet in four-color offset printing presses: the printed product is the finished color image!

Cyan

Magenta

Yellow

Black

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