I'm curious to why A color TV uses certain colors and a printer uses others?

A color TV uses red, green, and blue phosphors to produce the colors that we see. In printing, however, we use magenta, yellow, and cyan as the primary colors. Why do these two differ? Why is that?I'm curious to why A color TV uses certain colors and a printer uses others?
Great observation! Most people actually don't notice this. The reason for this is because television, a direct source of light, is capable of emitting true colours using green, red and blue. So basically, you have a mix of light rays generating that specific colour you see.


However, when it comes to printing and drawing, the pigment doesn't generate its own light, but rather depends on light from a light source to bounce off of it into your eyes. Since white light is made up all colours, the pigment absorbs all the colours except its own, and bounces the ray to you.


So basically, when it comes to pigment, you're not making colour, you're rather taking it away. By colouring something orange, everything is absorbed, and magenta and yellow are reflected back.





Take a look at the link I've attached. It even has some games to help you understand this more.





Hope this helped!I'm curious to why A color TV uses certain colors and a printer uses others?
Yes they are correct in a ';real world'; but we are talking about computer displays and printing.. By default colours are displayed by the vid card and monitor and the colour scheme has to be applied through the Colour Management of your display settings.


Graphic designers have a hernia every time they try to get the colours correct across all mediums ( think of all those corporate logos and their ';trade colours';)


You need to get the colour management scheme from 1. Vid card manufacturer. 2. Monitor manufacurer 3. Printer manufacturer..





This should sort the display / printing differences..





hope this helps





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BaAL
I can answer this. The principles of light and pigments are different. In TV light is used and in Printers Pigments are used. If you mix all primary colours of pigments you get the same as if you micx the primary colours of light. Have a good day.