can i produce percentage pantones in signlab?

[Peter Normington]

Do you mean that you want a tint? it can be done in Sign lab
Do you have the pantone pallette?
If so select the colour you are going to use, then double click to edit, set the percentage, the name and add to the palette.
Peter

[Gavin MacMillan]

Hi Peter, aye I’m trying to get tints, didn’t have the pallete docked so wasn’t able to edit the colours. I need to change them to spot colours to edit and this looks like it changes them a lot? Is this right?

I’m a bit new to this and don’t have a hard copy – there is hopefuly one on its way so that’ll help!

Thanks

G

[Peter Normington]

The hard copy want help.

anyway click on the pallette tools, to find and edit colour, look in the pantone library, most solid caoted colours should be editable to tints.

What colour are you using, there is another way to obtain tints. but wil have to get back to you on this, got a customer waiting

peter

[Nick Minall]

If you have the pantone palettes then just open it and drag the ones you need to the palette you have showing then you can edit them.

[Gavin MacMillan]

Got it cracked from your earlier post – thanks!

I have a full pantone colour chart printed on the versacamm that I then refer to from the book as they don’t match – well some do, some are close and others are miles out. But this was the first job that came across that required tints. Just done the proof for the customer who is on there way.

Would be interested in your other method when you have time – the colours are 5757c 60% 431c 100% and 431c 50%.

Just wanted the hard copy to compare – obviously I know if the 100% colour has worked well, but without a hard copy how do you know if the tint is as your customer expects it?

G

[Gavin MacMillan]

Ahh, cheers Nick, that saves a bit of hassle. Sorry to be asking daft questions, didn’t have time to work it through as the customer had phoned to say they were on there way in!

[Nick Minall]

No problem… I find new things in SL every day, the way you can do things is pretty trick 😮

[Tim Painter]

I’m lost a bit here.

Been doing artwork for litho for 10 years now with Spot colours and 4 colour process.

Why if your printing to a 4 or 6 colour device (like a Versa Camm) do you set the artwork up as Pantones? The 2 colour systems are totally different. If you look at a Solid to Process colour swatch you will see many colours are way off.

Thus why many corporates have tech specs for Spot colour & 4 colour printing.

Do most people do this and let their RIPs sort out the splits?

Just curious.

Tim.

[Gavin MacMillan]

Hi Tim,

this is a first for me today. We normally use the colour swatch of our vinyl range in signlab. I have a full print out of this next to my desk and use this so I can print colours that match the vinyl range. For this job the customer supplied the logo on disc with the pantone references so I had to match the colour to these instead of the vinyl range. Not how I would choose to do it as, as I said above, to do it I have to take the pantone book and check it against a full pantone pallete swatch that I printed to find the closest match. A pain in the ass to be honest but I now have their logo in the correct colours – just been approved and he’s delighted, best reproduction of his logo he’s had, so brownie points to me (and I’ll share a couple with Peter!!)

G

[Peter Normington]

Glad you got it sorted Gavin,

Though you meant the siglab manual was coming in hard copy 😳

Peter

[Rod Young]

You can also print a series of tint swatches for a given foil or Pantone.

1. From the File menu, go Spot Swatches.
2. In the SmartBar, choose One Foil Swatch from the drop-list.
3. Use the colour picker to choose the foil.
4. Set the series of tints you want, and the number of intervening tints.
5. Click Apply.

FYI. Working with foils requires the Thermal Spot Colour Printing module. Working with Pantones requires the PANTONE Support module.

Cheers,

Rod at CADlink