I see Pantone no longer produces the tint guides, what are others doing for color matching tint colors such as 10% of PMS 185 or any % of any color for that matter
I see pantone no longer produces the tint guides, what are others doing for color matching tint colors such as 10% of PMS 185 or any % of any color for that matter
I copy a patch of the colour (say if you're working in illustrator for example) paste in Photoshop, grab that colour with the eye dropper, double click that colour in your toolbar swatch to get to the colour picker window, click colour libraries, then choose your colour model that you want to use. PS will give you it's closest approximation. Hope this helps
I see pantone no longer produces the tint guides, what are others doing for color matching tint colors such as 10% of PMS 185 or any % of any color for that matter
Printshops and/or their ink suppliers can use a Little Joe (Little Joe Industries) to do ink draw downs - including screened tones - on the actual substrate that will be used as a way of proofing spot colors.
Sorry if this hijacks this thread at all, but....
Gordo, is the method you described a way of getting accruate Lab values that can then be used as a basis for creating a colour accurate proof?? Or just a method of determining target values for use? I ask since we recently had a job where we wanted to ensure that the solid screen of a Pantone matched well, but not much was done with ensuring the screens were also achieving what the designer wanted...
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I agree with what you say Gordo regarding actual press proofs.
How can that be easily translated into a standard across a multi-site operation?
Well, in for example packaging, the usual way is...
Pantone spot colors are built using recipes for ink mixes. So, the selected base inks are identified and standardized. Then a target solid ink density is defined which includes a specified tolerance for deviation. Sometimes that's represented by a printed target/hi/lo sample (which eliminates issues caused by measuring device variation).
That gives you consistency of your solid inks across different facilities. With that as your standard you could then measure the CIELab value of that solid to use to mix inks for other reproduction processes e.g. Flexo, screen printing etc. that gives you consistency across different media despite instrument measurement variation.
With that in place you can create a simple dot gain/tone reproduction target for any screen value.
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