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Re: Canon printer minor quibble



On Sat 01 Oct 2016 at 23:05:58 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > 
> > Regarding the darker colors with the Gutenprint driver: does setting
> > Color Model to CMYK make any difference?
> > 
> Out of curiosity I tried that last night. Actually more accurately I 
> tried CMY, not CMYK. It made no difference. What is the K of CMYK? Cyan, 
> Magenta, Yellow, Kick-Ass??? Is there any reason I should expect CMYK to 
> do better than CMY or RGB?

K is black. It stands for "key". The three other colours are keyed
to it.

You shouldn't expect anything but CMYK sometimes produces an improvement.

-- 
Brian.


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