Pigment Color
Why does color printing use different primary pigment colors than color tv of the human eye?....?
In other words, why not use red, green , and blue inks for color printing.
I thought the answer was tv's start with black and add colors while newprint starts with white and substracts colors. Am I right? Please help.
"I thought the answer was tv's start with black and add colors while newprint starts with white and substracts colors. Am I right?"
Yes. That is exactly right.
By "adding colors" or "subtracting colors" you mean adding and subtracting wavelengths of light.
A monitor or TV is a light-*emitting* object ... so it fools the eye into seeing many colors by directly controlling the wavelengths of light that it is emitting. So it constructs light by adding just the right amounts of red, green, and blue to fool the eye into thinking it is seeing all sorts of different colors. For example, whenever you see yellow on a computer monitor, there is actually not a single speck of yellow on the screen. The screen is just sending red and green wavelengths (no blue) to the eye, which to the eye is equivalent to the stimulus "yellow".
Paper, however, is not a light-emitting object but a light-*reflecting* object. So it has to simulate colors by *subtracting* wavelengths from that light. Contrary to popular belief, inks are not reflective ... they are translucent ... they filter out wavelengths as they pass through the ink to the paper, and then again as the light reflects out of the paper toward the eye. So to get "blue" you have to subtract out yellow wavelengths.
Color Theory 2: Paint/Pigment Primary Colors. The Truth!!!
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