CMYK Printing - Why printing does not match with my screen color?
CMYK Printing - Why printing does not match with my screen color? Understanding CMYK vs RGB The first thing to understand about RGB and CMYK is the difference between additive and subtractive color spaces. · RGB is an additive color space ; when you add the colors together, you get white. · CMYK exists in the subtractive color space ; white only exists when the colors are absent. Digital displays use additive colors. They create over 16 million colors using red, green, and blue pixels at varying intensities. Printed matter , by contrast, uses subtractive colors. Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black dots are used to create over 16 thousand colors. What is RGB and CMYK? Additive color systems like RGB are called such because as you add the colors together, they get lighter unt...