technoguy

The mixture of ideal CMY colors is subtractive (cyan, magenta, and yellow printed together on white result in black). CMYK works through light absorption. The colors that are seen are from the part of light that is not absorbed. In CMYK, magenta plus yellow produces red, magenta plus cyan makes blue and cyan plus yellow generates green.

Desiree

So is this like mixing your basic colors lets say you had paint.

technochick

I don't understand how those colors mixed on white can turn into black? It doesn't make sense to me.