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What does 4-color process mean? When should I use it?
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16th of September, 2009
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If you have a photographic or painting-like image, chances are you will want to use a four color process for decorating your product. Four color process will recreate a photo-realistic image. It is also sometimes used to represent artwork that uses more than four solid colors because using only four colors is more economical. The process uses combinations of varying sizes of blue (cyan), red (magenta), yellow (yellow), and black (black) dots to create images. You see four color process printing every day in color pictures in newspapers. Also sometimes called CMYK.
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