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CMYK stands for cyan magenta yellow and blacK and is a color system used in the offset printing of full-color documents.
Offset uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks and is often referred to as "four-color" printing. Monitors use red, green, and blue light instead, so they display images using a different color system called RGB. One of the great problems of the digital age has been matching colors between these two systems; i.e., taking a digital RGB image and making it look the same in print using CMYK. These problems are addressed by applications such as the Pantone Matching System.
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