The word "cyan" is a perfectly valid English word and can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example, you might use it in a sentence such as: "The sky was a brilliant shade of cyan this morning."
It was 9.16pm, the sky a dusky cyan.
Black cartridges go for a bargain $10 and the five-ink colour cartridge (cyan, magenta, yellow, a second black, and a clear protective coating) for an extraordinary $15, less than half the normal price.Two things have made this possible.
Print heads with complementary colours of magenta, cyan and yellow were added to black ink, enabling printers to create a full range of colours.
Instead of having cardboard "anaglyph" spectacles with a crude red filter for one eye and cyan for the other, the increasingly popular 3D system developed by RealD of Beverly Hills, California, relies on circularly polarised light with one lens polarising the light to the left, and the other to the right.
The four CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and key—usually black) inks used to print images on paper offer a greater range of hues, tints, shades and tones than is possible with the three RGB (red, green and blue) phosphors of computer screens.
Colour control consists of modifying the colour of the printing light by yellow, magenta, and cyan filters (typically by inserting high-density filters of these colours to varying degrees in the light path) to obtain a print of the correct or desired colour balance.
These hexadecimal codes spell out the levels of red, green and blue, so #009fd7 means zero red, 9f (ie, about 62%) green and d7 (about 84%) blue, making for a... a bright but intense, turquoise-y-cyan-ish... with a hint of... umm......well, what?
(5) The next emulsion, which is blue-and-red sensitive (blue again being suppressed) and contains a cyan-forming colour coupler.
Hively turned on Fifty-first Street, and stopped at Tout Va Bien, a restaurant with a weathered cyan-and-pink neon sign.
The red-and-cyan 3-D system that grew out of their experiment enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1920s.
He explored printing techniques by separating the four plates used to print full-colour images cyan (a warm blue), magenta, yellow, and black and having them printed in different positions on the page.
