About Color Printing; The Three Primary Colors Of Light And Color - Canon LBP 5300 User Manual

About Color Printing

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

The Three Primary Colors of Light and Color

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).
Green Green
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).
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M M
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About Color Printing

White
Red Red
Blue Blue
Black
C C
Y Y