On 07/01/04 at 16:54 Richard of Campos & Davis Photos wrote: >This must have been asked before but in CMYK, why is black given the letter >K? >Is it 0deg Kelvin? > >I expect this is off topic but I've been loosing sleep over it and can't >find any explanation in any colour management text books.
Most pressmen (at least in the US), used to refer to their inks as Blue, Red, Yellow and Black. In reality Blue was really Cyan, and Red was really Magenta, but since they were in the habit of using a piece of tape or marker on each fountain with the first letter of each, by the time they got to Black, the "B" was already taken by "Blue", so they used the last letter in "Black" which is "K". At least that's the story I always heard in the pressroom. David -- Creating an image database? be sure to visit (http://ControlledVocabulary.com/)! Read a review of the Image Info Toolkit utility at: (http://ControlledVocabulary.com/imagedatabases/imageinfotoolkit.html) -- David Riecks (that's "i" before "e", but the "e" is silent) http://www.riecks.com , Chicago Midwest ASMP member http://zillionbucks.com "The Webhost for your Creative Business" =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
