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Any publishing house can usethe pantone numbers to generate the colors as
PORTRAYED ON A PANTONE COLOR CARD. Do NOT trustr what your monitor shows
you. We put out a high-end graphics product (Wright Design Pro 2.2) that
deals with monitor infidelity by allowing an accurate calibration to be set,
and then using calibration files to "fake" color sets for the output class.
Using this system comes CLOSE to what the final colors will be. Photoshop is
the worst - they use a fake (their own unique one natch) gamut
(color-spread) to show RGB beside CMYK.
So - Pantone is REALLY only supported by offset printing - you cannot expect
every monitor to a) display colors EXACTLY the same and b) have the same
color gamut as CMYK on different stock types.
That is why they supply the color swatch cards in hardcopy - and even these
are only useful for a few years at a time because colors oxidise. Thus -
grab your swatch plate - pick your colors, and ignore what you see on the
screen. If you are concerned with working in CMYK as WYSIWYG as you can get,
buy our product and a top-range monitor, find a neutral light studio to put
it in etc.
Steve
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From: bounce-techwr-l-62124 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-62124 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Damien
Braniff
Sent: Friday, 9 March 2001 22:32
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Pantone colours
I have a (hopefully!) slight problem with Pantone colours which may be
simply (I hope) a misconception on my part and hopefully somebody can set me
straight.
Background:
I'm creating a template in Frame to mimic an existing doc (in PDF). I have a
list of the Pantone colours used but they don't look quite the same but then
graphics quite often don't in Frame until distilled and printed. However,
when I was playing with the PDF (opened in Illustrator) to check the colour
match, I drew a box and selected the Pantone swatch from the Pantone colour
library but was told another already existed in the document with a
different definition
Question
Was I wrong in assuming that the Pantone colours were set? I'd always
assumed that if I was using Pantone 5565 CVC then every time I select that
colour it would be the same but it seems to have been redefined - am I
missing something obvious?
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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