process color

English

Alternative forms

• process colour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

Short for four color printing process.

Noun

process color (plural process colors)

1. (printing) 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.

   Coordinate term: spot color

Synonyms

• CMYK
• four color
• full process
• full color

References

• Spot Versus Process Color, Pantone Corporation.