Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen Senior Content Strategist at 4OVER4.COM
Question

What is process color?

Answer

Process color is full-color printing created by combining the four CMYK inks, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, in tiny overlapping dots. Your eye blends those dots into a continuous image, which makes process color the standard way to reproduce photographs and multicolor artwork.

  • Uses just four inks to reproduce a huge range of colors.
  • Ideal for photos, gradients, and designs with many colors.
  • Differs from spot color, which uses a single premixed ink per color.
  • Best results come from files supplied in CMYK at full resolution.

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