What Does It Mean CMYK In Printing Industry ?

CMYK is called the printing color pattern, just as its name implies is used for printing, is a kind of rely on reflective colors  mode, similar to RGB, CMY is name the first letter of three kinds of printing ink: blue

Color Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Magenta, Yellow.But K is the last letter of black, black can not taking the first letter is in order to avoid confused with Blue (Blue).In theory, only need CMY three ink is enough, they can be make black when three ink mixture together .However, current manufacturing process can not produce high purity of ink, CMY addition result is actually a kind of dark red.

Compared and RGB, it has a very different: RGB mode is a kind of light color, you can still see in a dark room on the screen content;

CMYK is a kind of rely on reflective colors  mode, how do we read the newspaper?By sunlight or lamplight illuminate to the newspaper, and reflection to our eyes, to see the content.It needs to have the light, if you can't read the newspaper in a dark room.

As long as the image on the screen, is the performance of the RGB mode.As long as it is seen on print images, is CMYK mode.Such as journals, magazines, newspapers, posters, etc., are printed, so is the CMYK mode.