process color

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process color

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Short for four color printing process.

noun process colors · process colour

A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.
Similar: CMYK, four color, full process, full color

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@misc{process_color_2026,
  title = {process color},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/process%20color},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}