Pantone issues
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- DaveO
Quite a common problem here, wondered if anyone could help me with it.
I have to show a client a cover for a book i am printing.
The design is in 2 pantone colours, printed on an uncoated stock with a white foil.
They want to see exactly what it will look like – or as close to it.
When I use the pantone colours in indesign, they print out of our printer a vastly different colour to what I see on the colour chips, which I can understand, as a laser printer cannot reproduce spot colours.
The CMYK conversion is closer, but what I want to get at is, how do people get around this problem and show the client the closest colour to what they are going to get, without wet-proofing?
Any help / experiences appreciated!
- shinpo0
I found this a while ago. I still haven't tried it, but it might work although requires a bit of patience on the guy who does your press.
"Heh. This is a problem I've struggled with as well, and the best solution I've found is to make a square of arbitrary size with a gradient halftone pattern on it and ask your local press to run it in each color, rotated 90 degrees between colors, so that you can see how the two colors interact at various tint levels.
I've been facing this with a personal job where I'm printing in black and 871 metallic gold. Screen previews usually aren't bad, but because metallic inks are opaque rather than transparent, I had to build them somewhat differently.
Seriously, best of luck to you - I haven't found a good solution for this yet. "
- indian_pole0
you'll never be 100% spot on. take a pantone chip or a swatchbook to your meeting.
- typist0
highend inkjet + pantone huey pro
- johndiggity0
+1 for getting ink drawdowns on the stock you want to use from the printer. most will gladly do this for you.
- monospaced_III0
Recreate the digital comp with colors that better match the actual chips. Play around with RGB (wider gamut) to get the desired result.