jotterpinky
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Question for all you experts in color management. I have a customer wanting to print out swatch sheets of all his paint colors for metal roofing. There are about 60 different colors, the previous printer did a horrible job matching the colors. I and my customer understand that we won't be able to match perfectly with 4-color process but would like to get a close approximation.
I started by using our i1 spectrophotometer and got a reading from each paint chip. The software allows me to export the swatches as an Illustrator swatch book but wants to know which color space to use, e.g. RGB, CMYK, Lab. Further it allows me to choose an ICC profile for each of these color spaces, e.g. GraCol, sRGB etc.
My question is what settings would give the best color match to begin design in, then eventually output to the press? We currently use the Gracol coated profile in our design software and design in CMYK. Final output will be on a 4-color press.
Or perhaps there is a different approach to doing this that I'm not aware of. If anyone is doing contract work like this that has prior experience it would be much appreciated, or perhaps some helpful tips for ways they've matched color before doing similar work.
I started by using our i1 spectrophotometer and got a reading from each paint chip. The software allows me to export the swatches as an Illustrator swatch book but wants to know which color space to use, e.g. RGB, CMYK, Lab. Further it allows me to choose an ICC profile for each of these color spaces, e.g. GraCol, sRGB etc.
My question is what settings would give the best color match to begin design in, then eventually output to the press? We currently use the Gracol coated profile in our design software and design in CMYK. Final output will be on a 4-color press.
Or perhaps there is a different approach to doing this that I'm not aware of. If anyone is doing contract work like this that has prior experience it would be much appreciated, or perhaps some helpful tips for ways they've matched color before doing similar work.