{"id":2102,"date":"2009-05-27T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2009-05-27T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T05:04:41","slug":"the-four-color-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/printing\/the-four-color-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The four-color process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"four-color print process\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/CMYK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo, which I took at the Snoeck Ducaju &amp; Zoon printing plant in Ghent, Belgium, a few years back, clearly shows the four-color printing process. The workers are cleaning the presses, and they have removed the plates. From back to front you can see the colors of conventional four-color (CMYK) printing: black (the &#8220;key,&#8221; K), cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y).<\/p>\n<p>Yellow plates are made not to look quite the color of yellow ink in order to see them better. The yellow is added last, and too much can create a kind of milky fog, so adjusting the yellow is often a place to start in color correcting on press.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo, which I took at the Snoeck Ducaju &amp; Zoon printing plant in Ghent, Belgium, a few years back, clearly shows the four-color printing process. The workers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}