RE: Hexadecimal to PMS

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

Thanks, Michele, for the fast turnaround. It would be helpful to know how
_close_ an approximation we're talking about. For example, no one here would
lose any sleep over the difference between PMS 294 and PMS 295. But the
difference between PMS 292 and PMS 295 would raise eyebrows.

Thanks,

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Davis 
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 12:26 PM
To: Goldstein, Dan
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Hexadecimal to PMS

LOL. I just dealt with this. All my graphic design contacts and friends 
as well as my printer said that it is simply an approximation, not an 
exact replica of the HEX color, I've been told you'll never get a 
perfect PMS to HEX match.

Just what I've heard. The calendar I did, my client asked for PMS colors 
to make tee shirts, utilizing the HEX colors I used in Quark for each 
month of the year. The printer of the tee shirts told me to just give 
him a color laser instead of trying to match HEX to PMS because he as 
the tee shirt printer didn't even USE PMS colors---

Michele

Goldstein, Dan wrote:

>I've been looking at http://www.pargolf.com/PMS.htm. When I go into the
>source code, I see hexadecimal values for the PMS "swatches" on the page.
>For example, the hexadecimal value for PMS 2945 seems to be #0054a0.
>
>I've worked extensively with hexadecimal values in designing colors for Web
>pages, but I am not familiar with PMS requirements. Is it fair to say that
>these are approximate hexadecimal values for the actual PMS colors?
>
>By the way, http://www.cyberbits.com/Backgrnd/hexcolr2.htm gives a chart
for
>converting RGB values to hexadecimals.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan Goldstein
>

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