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I was thinking because it is one of the inks in CMYK for printing.

• praptak 7y ago
  You are probably thinking of rich black, which in CMYK is black plus some of the other three ink colours. Converted to RGB it would still be black, but in actual printing it has its uses.
  • jameshart 7y ago
    I definitely recall hearing the term super black as distinct from rich black to refer to just a mixture of black and cyan, but I can’t find a cite for that. May have been local to a specific printer? This was in a context where avoiding using four inks was an important cost saving, so maybe it was just a two color equivalent of rich black. Of course, those two colors were also immortalized by John Cougar Mellencamp in his “little ditty ‘bout black and cyan...”