Flexi Sign vs Colour pantones

[David McDonald]

Hi Dean

We have an older version of Flexi but it includes all Pantone colours in the colour library.

Double click a colour in the swatch table and it’ll bring up the colour specs window, choose the library tab, select Pantone from the Vender drop down, then the type (process, uncoated, solid etc.), select the desired colour and hit add to include it in the swatch table.

Hope that helps
Macky

[Dean Poulter]

Thanks that was spot on !!

[Peter Normington]

You may have the pantone palette but I wonder if you can print them as they are on the pantone swatch?

I have problems getting pantones correct, in both signlab and Wasatch.

in theory they should be correct if using the correct profiles for the material, but rarely the case for me, how do others deal with pantones?

Peter

[Tim Painter]

Buy a SPOT to PROCESS swatch you will be amazed how many Spot colours are way off when printed 4 colour.

Peter many colours just aren’t possible to replicate in CMYK.

[Peter Normington]

yes Tim
I know that. was just pointing it out to Dean

Peter

[Tim Painter]

Hi Peter I was directing it at Dean rather than you.

You stated that if you have the correct profiles for the material in theory they should be correct.

Which isn’t the case as some are simply not possible to reproduce correct, so the theory is that it isn’t possible.

I don’t mean to come across picky Peter, I just think Dean needs to realise for certain spot colours printing in CMYK just aint going to match the spot colour.

I don’t print in house but have produced artwork for Litho for a good few years and think when anyone buys a printer they should buy a decent set of ink swatches, it’s all very well having the 10K Kit and not buying a £50 swatch 😕

Tim.

[Peter Normington]

Tim,
we are on the same waveband
I agree entirely,

sorry if a didn’t explain properly

Peter

[Richard Urquhart]

We have a great system Called Roland Colour in which any colour printed on MD5 and given the correct vendor code in signlab. This will print as in the Roland colour swatch, we use this book to match pantone colours first and chose the correct Roland colour.
Rich

[Tim Painter]

No worries Peter

I think Richards method is the way to go.
Print a spot colour chart using the profile for the selected media, then amend the artwork color values to the chart to obtain the closest match.

Just make sure if you save the file, you save it with a ref to know the colours are tweaked for output.

Just my 2p’s worth I don’t print in house so others may have better methods.

Tim.

[Peter Normington]

quote Richard Urquhart:

We have a great system Called Roland Colour in which any colour printed on MD5 and given the correct vendor code in signlab. This will print as in the Roland colour swatch, we use this book to match pantone colours first and chose the correct Roland colour.
Rich

Thats similar to what i do Rich, print a swatch and choose the match, but as Tim says it is not possible to print a lot of pantones with cymk
Good designers will give a cymk closest match and accept it,

Peter

[Richard Urquhart]

I have the Roland colour swatch printed from Roland on MD5 as a fan swatch, when meeting with customers and or designers I take this and explain the issues with printing using cmyk and most are happy to compare their pantone swatch with mine and we agree on a colour.
Rich