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  can anyone help me set up these pantone colours in rgb?

  Posted by Liam Pattison on 21 February 2010 at 16:53

  Hi there
  i am trying to set up sepecific pantone colours in some artwork in illustrator. I can see how to enter the values for cmyk and rgb but i’m not 100% sure how to get these values for pantone colours.

  I’ve downloaded the colour bridge software from the pantone website and the library but i’m still a bit stuck.

  the two colours i need to use are-

  Mil Blue Pantone PMS321 (Pantone Coated 321 CVC)
  Mil Red Pantone PMS200 (Pantone Coated 200 CVC)

  the rgb values i’ve got for the blue are R:0 G:52 B:54

  and the values for the red are R: 73 G: 7 B:17

  Can anybody tel me if this is correct and can you also tel me the CMYK values for both colours so i can enter them aswell.

  Thanks if you can help!

  Liam

  Liam Pattison replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Rowland

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  21 February 2010 at 18:20

  I am confused why you would need to… most rips understand pantone colours. ( and these are measured in LaB )

  RGB is designed for adaptive colours (from a black background), so good for monitors and cameras.

  You can use a bridge (or software bridge) to convert pantone to CMYK to make it less likely a mistake would happen at press, but really its best to leave them as Pantone. You may have noticed that the software bridge way have given a warning when converting the colour, which is true, means it cannot convert it. So, Pantone cannot be 100% converted to CMYK but RGB gives a better range.

  I get off my tutor box

  For instance Photoshop CS4 claims:
  PMS321 could be C100, M17, Y39, K1 or R0 G137 B152
  PMS200 could be C18, M99, Y77, K7 or R190 G15 B52

  Use at your own risk!

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  Liam Pattison

  Member

  21 February 2010 at 22:14

  Thanks Dave

  I don’t know too much about rips as i don’t have a printer.

  I was just trying to set up the pantone colours correctly within the illustrator file incase i needed to send it to a trade printer so he has the colours correctly set up when he recieves it.

  Does this make sense?? Am i going about this the right way?

  Thanks

  Liam

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  David Rowland

  Member

  21 February 2010 at 23:29

  then leave them as Pantone colours, converting them is a mistake.

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  Liam Pattison

  Member

  22 February 2010 at 18:20

  Thanks Dave,
  i have now found the pantone swatches in illustrator, i thought you had to enter them in manually using their rgb or cmyk equivalents for some reason. I read a little bit and got the wrong end of the stick 😳

  thanks

  Liam

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