Re: Number of Colors
Re: Number of Colors
- Subject: Re: Number of Colors
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:04:20 -0400
on 8/23/02 11:19 AM, Robin Myers wrote:
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At the dot level, a CMYK halftone device can only print 32 different
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colors (all the possible combinations of C, M, Y, K and White). When
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looking at the result of this over a larger area, the reflected light
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blends to make millions of colors.
But how many truly UNIQUE colors can be produced? There are many
combinations of CMY+K that produce effectively the SAME color, right? All
the possible combinations of CMY, CMYK and K-only to produce a neutral gray
scale would be an easy example of this.
I'll stop there before I start revealing my ignorance! ;-)
Terry
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