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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
%% 
%%  Example 11-3-17 on page 748.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%% 

\documentclass{ttctexagray}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{Cyan}{cmyk}{1,0,0,0.3}
\definecolorseries{XXX}{cmyk}{last}{white}{Cyan}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\resetcolorseries[20]{XXX}
\rowcolors{2}{XXX!!+}{XXX!!+}
\begin{tabular}{lrr}
\rowcolor{Cyan}\multicolumn{3}{l}
   {\large\textbf{\strut Table title}}\\[2mm]
\rowcolor{Cyan}
\textbf{Description} & \textbf{Column 1}
             & \textbf{Column 2} \\[1mm]
Row one  & mmmmm & mmmm \\
Row two  &  mmmm &  mmm \\
Row three& mmmmm & mmmmm\\
Row four & mmmmm & mmmm \\
Totals   & mmmmm & mmmmm
\end{tabular}
\end{document}