magenta

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Inks. It uses three color dye Vivera inks -- magenta, yellow and cyan -- plus a photo black that's a dye not a pigment.

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  1. noun See fuchsin.
  2. noun A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.

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  • In color it was a rich magenta, and the skirt was elaborately braided with black cable-cord. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • All this plum and magenta which is so popular is a great pity, I think. —  The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham - Campion 10
  • When you add cyan, magenta, and yellow together, you get black - in theory. —  Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials
  • The replacements are reasonably priced, but the high-yield ones are an even better deal: $27 for an 800-page black tank (3.4 cents per page), and $18 each for 750-page cyan, magenta, and yellow tanks (2.4 cents per color, per page). —  Reseller News
  • The pictures, hand printed with natural and vegetable dyes in rich colors like deep red, mild dark green, deep yellow, magenta, fawn and blacks, form vibrant and captivating images. —  India Press Release
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  1. After Magenta, a town of northwest Italy.

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  1. from French magenta, so called from Magenta in Italy, because this color was discovered in the year (1859) of the battle of Magenta.
 

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