CMYK -> Pantone?
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- 23kon0
Just tried Pantone > CMYK for a current job and wasnt impressed with the outcome although it got us close.
The client is just doing digital printing so I printed test colour variation charts out on our colour printer and a couple of decent copy shops nearby to get an average of results then from here chose the ACTUAL cmyk breakdown's we'd go with that looked the best on average.
Fingers crossed when this goes to print for brochures the colours are the same lol.
- bjladams0
i worked as a printing apprentice for a number of years after college, learning the ropes from an old guy that probably had trained gutenberg - he had his own color chart that he'd put together over the years that was a reverse cmyk to pantone book. crazy, but dead-accurate.
he could probably make a small fortune if he had the time to manufacture them.
- too many variables... probably great on that machine, but wouldn't be accurate for another machine/setup.Amicus
- problem is that process only covers a small range of pantone, so amazing as it is, it only goes so farmonospaced
- ha! no, i think this is being misunderstood. he's made physical breakdowns from pigment and matched them to pms colorsbjladams
- pms colors. it's awesome. and fills up an entire briefcase.bjladams
- fourth0
before I had the color bridge book I'd ask here and people would look it up for me