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Appendix
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About Color Printing
The three primary colors of light and color are thus in a complementary color
relationship.
The red in light and cyan in color, green in light and magenta in color, and blue in
light and yellow in color complement one another.
Method for Expressing Color
Creating colors for painting involves mixing the colors on a palette to get a match. In
a computer display and printer, it is not possible to mix colors to match in the same
way as paints, so colors are reproduced by groups of colored dots.
On the computer display, various colors are reproduced by the intensity of three
red, green, and blue dots.
Complementary
Colors
C C
M Y M Y
Green Green
Blue Blue
Red Red
On a Monitor or Printer Paints
Color Bar