In this paper, the resolution characteristics of multi-primary-color (MPC) display systems are analyzed. That four-primary-color (4PC) displays can increase the effective resolution for achromatic images in the luminance domain by a factor of two as compared to conventional RGB-based displays with MPC-specialized subpixel rendering, which is proposed in this paper, is demonstrated. Five-and six-primary-color (5PC and 6PC) display systems can reproduce denser luminance data than conventional RGB-based display systems and solve a problem of MPC displays, viz. an increase of production costs and a decrease in the aperture ratio caused by increasing the number of subpixels in one pixel. This is an essential advantage of MPC display systems, which is related to the combination of the proposed color-filter architecture and image processing. Thus, a completely new advantage of MPC display systems, in addition to their well-known capabilities of color reproduction and power saving, is proposed.