process colors (process inks)
inks of cyan, magenta, and yellow, semi-transparent specifically formulated for four color process screen printing. process control
a system using feedback to monitor and manage a certain procedure.
The four process colors used in printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. CMYK image A four-channel image containing a cyan, magenta, yellow, and black channel. A CMYK image is generally used to print a color separation.
Halftone A method of printing a continuous tone image, such as a photograph, using a screen of tiny dots - Used in inkjet and lithographic printers only four CMYK process colors are used.
CMYK - A color model based on four process colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. The colors are mixed to create a full-color image on a printer.
The four so-called process colors (technically, they are "subtractive" colors) that are used in four-color printed reproduction. In desktop publishing it's one of the color models; the others being HSB, PMS and RGB.
CMYK - Cyan, magenta, yellow, black; often called process colors; a color model used to optimize images for printing in which all colors are described as a mixture of these four colors.
Gray Component Removal - A process in which potions of an image that have all three process colors have an equivalent amount of gray replaced by black to produce purer, more vivid colors.
Grayscale - Gray values in an image.
The actual Duotone Mode built into Photoshop was designed to facilitate commercial printing needs so some of the terminology such as "PANTONE" and "process colors" might seem confusing to the casual user.
Trap: Trapping involves the addition of dots or pixels around the edges of an object so that you donít get white or colored gaps if the image is printed slightly out of register. This is necessary where two process colors meet but do not overlap.
Guidelines, or "keylines" are created in light blue which read as white; while anything red or close to a red hue appears as black. The stat camera would be used to shoot color separations (using hue filters for each of the four process colors) and ...
 See also: Image, Color, Process color, Print, Printing
  
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