Brother Toner Questions: How Does CMYK Work?

We were just talking about color printing, which begs the question, how does the CMYK model allow Brother Toner machines to print in color?

First of all, it’s important to understand what CMYK stands for: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, the only four colors of ink CMYK requires to create all of its pictures. The K actually stands for key black, because black is the central color to the process that all the other colors must line up with.

CMYK is known as a subtractive color model, because it uses black to represent the combination of every color, and white to represent a lack of color. RBG, an additive model, works in the opposite way.

From a theoretical standpoint, you really don’t need black, as it can be achieved by combining cyan, magenta, and yellow. Still, this method isn’t actually used, since it requires more ink than a black ink cartridge alone. Also, text is usually printed in black, and it’s almost impossible to align the cyan, magenta, and yellow directly on top of each other, so CMY text would be blurry. For deep black in photographs, printers sometimes layer all four CMYK inks at once.

So now you know why you need four brother toner cartridges from www.BrotherToner.com. Pretty neat, huh?