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

[David Rowland]

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!

[Liam Pattison]

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

[David Rowland]

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

[Liam Pattison]

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