About Color Printing; The Three Primary Colors Of Light And Color - Canon Laser Shot LBP5200 User Manual

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About Color Printing

This section describes the fundamentals of colors and the way this printer

reproduces colors.

The colors that you see on a computer screen are reproduced from the three basic

colors red, green and blue. The 3 primary colors of light, which are red, green and

blue, can be combined to give white (additive color mixing).

A color printer, however, does not use the 3 primary colors of light, but uses the

same 3 primary colors as used in paintings to reproduce colors. If the 3 primary

colors of paint, C (cyan), M (magenta) and Y (yellow) are mixed together, the

resulting color is black (subtractive color mixing).