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Pantone says: The new CMYK Guide also offers more of what designers have asked for in the past, namely additional in-between colors. These are colors between two existing Pantone Colors that help fill in the gaps and provide more unique offerings. These colors are all achievable with CMYK...

I would say you have to print with CMYK inks, but I guess you should have a job order or quotation with all the information, including the number of inks, right? For sure you'll find more information about the PANTONE CMYK guides on the PANTONE’s website.

Dear all, I think there's a little bit more than just than that ... I would like to share with you a couple of articles that I find they are worth to read.... I guess these are the original sources: Matthias Betz: https://proofing.de/new-pantone-fans-with-incorrect-ink-formulations/ Eddy...

I guess Ynot_UK is seeing just the "Essentials" ... one should change to "Prepress,..." in order to see all the available options ;)

You should be able to do that with a module called XMF Colorpath Organizer. Note that you have a lot of information available in your system from the online help. I will send a private message to you with an attached document that contains the basic info.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the point if we only have one separation/channel. If it’s just Black, you really don’t need to overprint, don’t you? It is true that as a general rule black text should always be defined with overprint, but in some scenarios we could say that preflight reports may...

just to rule out that it's not a software issue... assuming you have a Fiery Command WS, could you check that the color settings are correct? - Please, check if the selected CMYK Processing Method is Full (Output GCR), and that the “Paper Simulation” checkbox is not activated.

Direct export of PDF/X-4 CMYK (CMYK and spot colors only; no ICC-based objects (e.g. RGB images) allowed). Supports live transparencies. I would say this is the way to go nowadays. you will find the settings + instructions here: QuarkXP für Offsetdruck - PDFX-ready

Checking the PDFs with a preflight tool could help to detect this. I have used the profile “Sheetfed offset (CMYK) GWG 2015” and an error for the Scaling factor is reported.

If you are talking about Fiery Hotfolders, then the Backup and Restore feature lets you create a backup of all the Hot Folders on your system and their settings. More info here: Backup and Restore

Hi bcr, I would suggest to anyone involved in prepress that should visit the Ghent Workgroup website. There you can find a lot of resources and documentation. You can download the PDF/X Workflow documentation based on the GWG2015 specification. The GWG has also published recommended applications...

well, I am not sure if I understand your question... not sure if you want de cmyk values to get that color printed with CMYK inks (halftones), or if you want the ink recipe for cmyk inks to build that spot color ink (ink kitchen/formulation). I recommend you to contact with your ink supplier.

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