GMG & ORIS Color Values

[Groovy HO]

Anyone knows if I have built-up several specific colors in my GMG color library through Color Tools. How can I export them and import into my Oris Color Tuner to use?

Thanks so much!!

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Do you mean Spot Colours?


Stephen Marsh

 

[Groovy HO]

Yes, I have some spot colours need to use my own values to replace.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

I am not sure if you can get disparate competing systems to exchange files - however the L*a*b* values should be universal. Simply create new spot colour entries in ORIS and plug in the numbers!


Stephen Marsh

 

[Groovy HO]

That's the problem, if I need to change 1 by 1 and there has more than 1000+ pantone colour in the library. Is there any faster way I can do it?

 

[Stephen Marsh]

1000+ is not “several” ;]


Stephen Marsh

 

[Groovy HO]

HAHA!! Several x 1000!!

Any way to do it?

 

[Stephen Marsh]

ORIS spot colour .SCG files appear to be in a flavour of CGATS format?

ORIS spot colour .SCGX files are in a flavour of XML.

If you can export out of GMG and do some sort of translation from/to then you may be in luck!

The good news is that you can test with a single colour, once you have the file format worked out you should then be OK.

Look into your GMG spot colour library export options, or under the hood at the spot library files by opening them into a plain text editor like notepad.

If you can supply a sample export of your GMG library file (or the original) I will see what I can do (time permitting).


Stephen Marsh

 

[Stephen Marsh]

ORIS Colour Tuner uses .lab or .osc format files for Pantone colour and spot colours (the CMYK values in .OSC are device values for the inkjet, not press CMYK).

Others supported file formats for import include;

* Spot color correction files .scg, .scgx

* Logo ColorPicker files .lcp

* X-Rite Color Exchange Format files .cxf

* Datacolor files .qtx


Good luck!


Stephen Marsh

 

[Groovy HO]

Yes, they are all a specific file format either GMG and Oris. So I think we need some kinds of third party software to exchange the file format.

 

[benstarr]

I see you mentioned Pantone colors. I'd assume you're trying to transfer in all the Lab values for Pantone colors.

Have you tweaked the Lab values in GMG from what Pantone supplies GMG? If you haven't ORIS will have the same values built in out of the box and it's just a matter of loading the correct tables. If you're trying to bring the CMYK values that you have tweaked to get specific results out of GMG, you might as well start from scratch with ORIS since the same output (inkjet) CMYK values are going to give different results in ORIS than they did in GMG.

All that being said you can export a text file out of your GMG tables. ORIS .lab, .osc and .scg are text based so you should be able to work some text file magic and get the data over if you needed to. You'll just need to play with the headers and format a bit.