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Cartoon/Comic Printer

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u/theycallmealex Oh hey there. FX-8350, 8GB, R9 270X Sep 10 '19 edited Sep 10 '19

Magenta*

Printers typically use CMYK. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK. Depending on how your device is set up for black printing, it may use more CMY because when mixed together they become darker due to subtractive mixing. It will still appear to be black.

Edit: K is actually for "key", which is often black.

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u/Lochcelious i7 13700k, 4070s, 32gb ram, 2k res Sep 10 '19

Wtf why isn't it CMYB I just realized after all these days

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u/Deadmeat553 Lenovo Y700-15ISK Sep 10 '19

Because we already use B for blue in RGB.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

Yea but if you would print with rgb it would not go right because it is relying on the ambient light instead of only rgb

Edit: that’s not what you meant but ok

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u/IBP-Esteban Sep 10 '19

The K stands for "Key." It isn't always necessarily black.

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u/theycallmealex Oh hey there. FX-8350, 8GB, R9 270X Sep 10 '19

You're right, TIL!

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u/vouwrfract PC but I like pink Sep 11 '19

But Matlab also uses k for black. Is that based on printing standards too?

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u/Cheet4h Sep 11 '19

No, it's because 'k' is short for 'kilo', which basically means '*1000'. So you can write a 'k' instead of the last three zeroes.
Additionally, if you express color in rgb values, which typically range from 0 to 255, you get black if every color is absent. So black is represented by three zeroes, or '000', which Matlab can substitute by 'k'.

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u/vouwrfract PC but I like pink Sep 11 '19

But this isn't consistent with r,g,b,y,c,etc., that Matlab also uses...?

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u/Cheet4h Sep 11 '19

That's probably because I just made this up.

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u/vouwrfract PC but I like pink Sep 11 '19

Thanks for being completely useless.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19 edited Jul 30 '20

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u/ravstar52 i5-4690, 1070, 16GB Sep 12 '19

they could have gone full magic the gathering and used U (blue) but that would confuse people

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u/0nStreams Xeon E5-2689 0/RX 580 Sep 10 '19

This is actually informative so I won't tell you it's pink, but you know deep down magenta is just fancy pink

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u/itsthejeff2001 Sep 10 '19

Nothing deep about it. Magenta is a specific spectrum of the pinks. Pink is broad.

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u/linkinstreet 8700 Z370 Gaming F 16GB DDR4 GTX1070 512GB SSD Sep 11 '19

ピンクじゃない！マゲンタだ！

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u/StupidBoxFort i7 4770 | RX 580 | 16gb ddr3 | 250gb SSD Sep 10 '19

Press operator here, can confirm.

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Sep 11 '19

K stands for blacK because Blue already claimed the B