Pantone convert
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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
- mistermik0
stupid question but its going to print?
yes - use pantone guide
no - software converti may be utterly wrong but has worked for me
- Bender0
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.
- Dancer0
lol. Blame teh PantoneĀ®
- mistermik0
yeah but it will be printed
- VectorMasked0
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.
- Bender0
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.
- skii0
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...
- Dancer0
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"