these colours on the Versant 80 Pantone to CMYK issues.

[TLPSfremantle]

Hi All,

so a client of ours has this file as part of their branding, they've only provided the colour in Pantones (158U) so my questions are, how is it that both oranges show as 158U, there's no transparency etc on either? and How would it be best to print these on the Digital Press? I can match the one shade, but should i just eye drop the jpg file to get the other?

Cheers in advance.

 

[wonderings]

I would imagine the lighter parts are a tint. If you look at separations and remove 158U the whole thing disappears? This is 158U with a 50% tint in the middle.

 

[michaelejahn]

The best way to print it on a digital press is with the The PANTONE[SUP]®[/SUP] COLOR BRIDGE™ guide in your hand, so you can open it to the page that has that color - as it will then display each PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Color ( such as 158 U ) and its corresponding simulation in CMYK ( which is c0, m50, y84, k0 ) which ( of course ) is somewhat different looking.

If they get all up in your grill about it not matching, keep pointing at that Pantone book and explain that this is a color that really can't be simulated using CMYK inks.

if you wanna dive deeper and get your hands all full of DeltaE, read this thread;

https://printplanet.com/forum/prepress-and-workflow/color-management/5292-spot-color-delta-e

 

[Dario]

I suggest you don't use PANTONE® COLOR BRIDGE™ guide since they don't tell you which method or standard is used to obtain such CMYK values!
I rather use the PANTONE Color Manager software which (at least) allows you to choose an ICC profile target.