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RGB Display and CMYK Printing
Display screens are RGB devices and have red, green and blue pixels. Printers are CMYK devices and use cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks. In theory, equal parts of cyan, magenta and yellow ink make black, but they tend to be muddy. Thus, black ink is used, making it a four color CMYK process (K for blacK). See CMYK.
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RGB Color Conversions
Printing requires conversion from RGB to CMYK, and video editing requires conversion to and from RGB and YUV.
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