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Originally Posted by JEFF2010SSMANUAL
WRONG.
White is the presence of ALL COLORS.
Black is the absence of ALL COLORS.
30 YEARS in the Printing Industry.
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Actually what we see as color are the frequencies of radiant energy rejected or reflected back to us by an object. For print work, "white" is rejecting all frequencies so radiant light which has all frequencies or "colors" in it bounces back to our eyes and we see white. Black absorbs all frequencies and very little to none is rejected so almost nothing is reflected back to our eyes. A red object is rejecting those frequencies which are being reflected instead of absorbed so we see only those frequencies coming off that object and it appears red to us. None of them actually have any color at all. In the absence of radiant energy, everything is dark. Printing ink doesn't have any color either; just properties that can reflect different frequencies of radiant energy.
White objects absorb nothing; they reflect it all back. Black objects absorb everything; they reflect nothing back.
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