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Artplan Graphics came into being in 1990. The name alludes to the technology then used in the printing industry. Artwork was photographed and the resultant sheets of film were planned in a sequence of multiple exposures. The end result usually in colour printing was four sheets of film, cyan, magenta, yellow and black from which a printing plate was made for each colour... That's the CMYK process still in use today in offset printing and in xerography (colour photocopiers). Legend has it that K was used instead of B for black because it was easier to scratch into the film.