Re: CMYK - Why is White not white, and black not black?
for technical reasons [basically the black ink is not dense enough to cover large areas by itself] when printing, a rich black is default - ie a mix of one or more % of c/m/y as well as k
that explains why it is not 0 0 0 100 - but why is is the exact % ratio it is I don't know - there is no hard and fast rule, it may depend on colour profiling...
in printing white equates to no colour at all so I would expect 0 0 0 0 but again it may be colour profiling
Last edited by handrawn; 02 January 2024 at 04:14 PM.
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