[snip]It seems PMS makes no effort to educate designers[snip]
What I have found infuriating about PMS is its use of reflex blue and rhodamine red as part of its basic colors of printing inks.
It seems PMS makes no effort to educate designers that their beauteous creations could take "forever" to dry, smudge customers' hands, or change color when going through industry-usual processes such as UV coating or hot lamination.
It is left to the print shop to break the bad news (somehow) to the customer that the design was "designed" without enough information. It is never a pleasant task to let people know that critical details were not dealt with.
This, I would venture to say, is one reason why four color process is making such leaps-and-bounds progress in areas such as stationery. 4CP printing is predictably ready to use (depending on substrate), a claim that can never be made about printing from a PMS color number pulled from a hat.
Pantone recognizes the impossibility of that endeavour.
The topic has evolved into proof of some previous proclamations made in the past from people of undenounced recognitions.
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