CMYK is an abbreviation for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK; the primary colors of a printer's pallette.

Halftones and CMYK Prints are made up of tiny dots as opposed to Line Art (Spot Colours) which is a solid colour. Halftones are used to produce "fine" shading and blends on your Tees and are usually just one colour. They can also be used to great effect in reproducing Black & White photos on garments. CMYK on the other hand is for producing full colour images (photos etc) on garments. The full colour effect is achieved by combining the C=Cyan(Blue) M=Magenta(Red) Y=Yellow K=Black dots.

Cyan, magenta, yellow, black is a color model used to represent color in print. Known as subtractive color model. Color is reproduced by the reflection of light off pigments. Although the full color gamut can be represented in CMY, true black cannot be made owing to impurities in the actual inks. Black (K) is added to counter this.

CMYK colours are used for off-set printing purposes. Prints include standard coloured stationary etc.

CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK, which are the common ink colors in 4-color printing processes. In a pure CMYK system, the black is unnecessary, and the other three colors are the exact inverse of Red, Green and Blue. Since real inks never quite work this way, some adjustments have to be made. The main one is adding black, since mixing cyan, magenta and yellow inks usually results in a muddy brown rather than a black.

Full-color images in RGB, (Red, Green, Blue) color mode are optimized for display on a computer monitor. When RGB images are submitted for separations, they will output only to the black plate. For correct separations, images should be submitted in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) mode. It's also important to create and edit your images in CMYK mode, as many of the colors reproducible by RBG can't be rendered in CMYK.

Although Apple (Mac) computers have long dominated the graphics (and music) industry, recent changes in digital print processes involving the use of printable PDF files, have made it much easier for PC owners to also create files that can now actually be used for "direct-to-plate" offset printing.

RGB and CMYK are acronyms for different methods of displaying color. RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue, while CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. (K is used for Black instead of B to avoid confusion with Blue.)

To purchase a color guide with over 3,000 process colors with their CMYK screen percentages, please visit Pantone or CDW for more information. Bleeds can require an additional cost, but not in all cases. Bleed costs are clearly indicated for products that allow bleeds.

RGB refers to the primary colors of light, Red, Green and Blue, that are used in monitors, television screens, digital cameras and scanners. CMYK refers to the primary colors of pigment: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. These are the inks used on the press in "4-color process printing", commonly referred to as "full color printing". The combination of RGB light creates white, while the combination of CMYK inks creates black.

RGB image can contain more colours than a CMYK image. When you convert to CMYK some colours maybe lost. This is why Loupe Images supply in RGB format.

The color mode of submitted files should be CMYK. If files are submitted in another color mode such as RGB they will be converted to CMYK. Conversions from one color mode to another may cause a slight color shift.

Briefly, CMYK and RGB are modes of color combination used to create an image file. Printers generally use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK ink to make images. This is why your 300dpi versions of images (that may be selected and plotted for use in the exhibition) need to be in CMYK mode. Web pages, viewed on the computer, display images created by a combination of Red, Green, and Blue light.

For all CD-ROM and DVD products and litho printed paper parts - use CMYK. For short run inkjet and digital print paper parts artwork can be supplied as RGB or CMYK.

No, Maskerade does not currently support CMYK images. Why not? Because CMYK images are not easy to produce. Most users think that you just select the CMYK mode in Photoshop and send it to the printer, but most users have little idea what they are doing wrong here (sorry, we're not trying to bash anyone...). Doing CMYK correctly is really difficult and we're not going to put out a half-baked solution when there are already good tools out there to work with. CMYK is a device-dependent color mode.