Glossary for Geospatial Science

CMY or Cyan-Magenta-Yellow:� The standard set of subtractive, processing colors used in printing.� Color printing devices use discrete dots of cyan, magenta and yellow to present the appearance of a full-color image to the human eye.� The combination of cyan, magenta and yellow produces black.� However, some printers include black ink along with the above three colors, which is properly called CMYK.