CMYK:
Standard digital printing process, making use of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black in a subtractive way to achieve average, limited prints.
A bit like that. Cheap and cheerful on a small scale production. Obviously these dots have been made unreasonably large just as a demonstration, but it shows how it works. The shutterstock thing is not part of it, that's the watermark from that website that people go to when they are too lazy to go and get/make their own images.
MONOCHROME/TINTS:
'Monochromatic light' refers to light of a narrow frequency. The same sort of thing applies in printing, or even painting and whatever else. It's basically printing using one colour, and tints of this colour, if you see what I mean. There's a good example of this on Tim Wan's work below.
SPOT COLOURS:
Any colour generated by a single ink, pure or mixed. There are various advantages to this process, in terms of cost and the ability to obtain special colours unachieavable in standard printing processes, such as CMYK.
The image above shows a printer that has two stations delivering a particular colour at a rapid rate.
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