WHAT ARE CMYK, RGB & SPOT COLOURS?
CMYK C is cyan (blue), M is magenta (red), Y is yellow, and K is black. These are the four inks used in printing and when mixed together form the spectrum of colours seen on your printed product. To reproduce full-color photographic images these four inks are placed on the paper in layers of dots that combine to create the illusion of many more colors. A mistake often made when submitting artwork for 4-color printing is not converting the images to the CMYK colour space. This is needed so that the file can be separated into the four colors and a separate printing plate can be made for each of the colours. RGB RGB is the colour system that your computer monitor displays and even when you are watching TV, the pictures are being displayed in a RGB colour mode. RGB is an additive colour system. What this means is that the colours are used to form a variety of colours. If you add an equal amount of red light, green light and blue light you will get white light. SPOT COLOURS Spot colours are
