Marc,
Thank you for your reply, Marc!
When you say "dependent on the profile you use," that is exactly my difficulty. I'm trying to determine this. Some of the online printers I'm looking at printing at use a GRACoL profile, some use U.S. Sheetfed, etc (and only one of them seem to offer pms solid, so I need to do CMYK). When I called, some of them didn't have an answer for me in terms of what color profile they need me to set. They just told me to do CMYK and see if what's on my monitor is what I want. My monitor isn't calibrated yet. And, the best way I know how to more accurately predict what the end result will be is to use a printed swatch reference.
So, I have Pantone Bridge. I picked a yellow-gold color (not metallic) and input those % values in to my Illustrator and InDesign swatches. In Photoshop, I filled my image background with this same % combination. So, everything that was the "solid" yellow-gold color input the same %.
When it came back from the online printer, it was more yellow-ish and saturated. Quite off.
What did I do wrong? Is there a color profile in the Adobe suites that works best with the Pantone books? ISO-12647-2 (FOGRA27 / 28 / 29) // should I expect the same amount of accuracy if I use Pantone book percentages and output with a color profile for GRACoL?
Thanks!
Chloe
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