Spot Cyan & Magenta

[tomyknoker]

Hi all... I need to select a spot colour for 100% Cyan and 100% Magenta as a PMS, does anyone know which colours I should pick?

Tom

 

[Vee]

How about PANTONE Process Magenta, and Cyan.. ; }

 

[TerryWyse]

Naming convention is the key!

Naming convention is the key!

You just need a "name" for the colors to put them on separate plates right?

I like to be efficient and concise with my color naming convention so I would go with something like this:

"Why do pressman call it blue when it's really CYAN"
and
"This is not Rubine or Rhodamine but is a Spot MAGENTA"

Like I said, efficient and concise, never verbose.



Regards,
Terry Wyse-ass

 

[tomyknoker]

Hi guys this is the response from the printer, they are ademant they can't print the Solid Cyan and Magenta... Does that sound right?

Those are hexachrome colors; the pantone equivilents are process blue and rhodamine red.
I just looked at the pantone book and they are the same.

 

[meddington]

Hi guys this is the response from the printer, they are ademant they can't print the Solid Cyan and Magenta... Does that sound right?

Not sure I'm following this. If the printer knows what ink they should be using, what does it matter what its named? Or am I missing something?

 

[oxburger]

Did you select Hexachrome inks in the color palette as your spot colors when you were building the job and they're telling you they can't print Hexachrome inks?

 

[Luc St-Pierre]

I see it all the times in flexo, printer wants to print solid process colors on a separate plate than screened process elements. I will simply create a spot (or designer) color named SpotMagenta. This will do the job for separation. After that, presspeople will decide what ink they want to use on this deck.

 

[pacart]

For those who haven't checked, process blue and process cyan are 2 different colors, the same with process magenta and rhodamine and rubine red. All these are different colors.

Is the job less than a 4 color job? If so for the cyan, set your mix to 100,0,0,0 and select spot (this is for Indesign) and 0,100,0,0 for the magenta and select spot as well. This should do the trick.

This is only for really stupid printers though, i wouldn't need you to do that at my shop, if you set your mixes to those numbers, you don't have to make them spots, they just naturally are since there is no color in the other plates.

It sounds like to me that you guys aren't communicating very well.

And no it doesn't sound right that they can't print a solid cyan or magenta, any print shop should be able to do it.

Maybe they are lazy or you are dealing with people who don't know what they are doing.

And the colors you should be telling them to use are:

Process Cyan
Process Magenta