Pantone convert 99 Responses

Last post: 2 months ago | Thread started: Oct 3, 08, 2:39 a.m.

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• Dancer

  So. I have long pondered on this and was wondering how you people would attack it.

  If you have only been supplied a Pantone reference for a corporate colour and wish to convert it to CMYK, do you:

  a) let the software do it, i.e convert on the fly through Illy/Indesign
  b) Pick up your Color Bridge Pantone book and use those values? They always seem to be different.

  Thanks

  Oct 3, 08, 2:39 a.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  stupid question but its going to print?

  yes - use pantone guide
  no - software convert

  i may be utterly wrong but has worked for me

  • No FAIL here, that is Correct.– roundabout1/2

    yes print– Dancer2/2

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Bender

  I mostly go after the Pantone values.

  If client later complains about colors not being correct, I can say I just did what the good old Pantone book told me to do.

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  lol. Blame teh Pantone®

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:44 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  I have always relied on the Pantone book but I have just done an orange and it looks rank

  • change it to blue. works well.– mistermik1/2

    Orange is shite in 4 colour. use 021C– DaveO2/2

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:45 a.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  yeah but it will be printed

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:46 a.m. – Permalink

• VectorMasked

  Attempt to go go by your color bridge pantone book. It's sorta safe.

  If you look at brand guidelines you will frequently see that the cmyk values were modified to get even closer or seem more saturated since the cmyk values can look a bit washed out.

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:47 a.m. – Permalink

• Bender

  I also just did and orange that looked shite, but it turns out Tetra Pack have their own Pantone book. Once I got a hold of that it looked awesome again.

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 2:47 a.m. – Permalink

• skii

  leave it as a pantone and let the artwork house sort it out, if the colours print wrong then tell the client to not be so tight and have the work ran litho spots! remember, you warned them...

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 3:07 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  Hmmmm.... this is going to the yellow pages so I doubt it will ever look right anyway.

  lol - "I demand a reprint, your colour match is way off"

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 08, 3:10 a.m. – Permalink