-
Pantone Capsure For Printing
Hi
Whats your thoughts on the Pantone Capsure apart from expensive lol, has anyone used one in business?
As a very new owner of a HP latex I’m trying to find the best way of identifying colours from customers current prints, vinyl etc. I know people in the game for years can easily say oh thats pantone xxxx but to me its red, blue, green etc and having already come across the problem of matching current work to new vinyl I want to try and ease having the same problem with printing.
So whats your thoughts, is it worth a try, can you recommend something better.
Thank as always for the helpful people on this board, Just hope one day I can be even 50% as helpful as some of you have been to me in getting started.
Kev
-
6 Replies
-
Got one and a latex… decided to send it back
prefer matching with the book as its easier
-
welcome to the world of printing best advice is don’t get carried away with colours it will drive you mad, best bet is to print swatches on your machine cos thats what its going to print, not some values that have to go through profiles before printing.
used a ione for a little while for some difficult colours back to the printed swatches.
i am sure that HP have a swatch print in there system.
-
Great thanks very much to you both, Ill hang fire for a bit and wait to see what I can print first.
Its easy with the Vinyl cause most of the time you can give the customer a swatch book and say pick the Vinyl you want, I cant say I had thought of printing a swatch book from the printer, thats one question for the Trainer when they install.
Cheers
Kevin
-
If asked I say we cannot guarantee a 100% colour match. Never say you can because you can’t, not with a CMYK machine. If you have gone with Onyx as your RIP then it comes with Pantone swatches which you can print out onto your different media to show exactly how close your machine can get.
John
-
Hi John
Thanks for the warning, the RIP is going to be Caldera but I think in future Ill Print a sample of the colours required for customer to see that way they know what they are going to get as the end result.
I can see how offering a colour match could end up like walking into a mine field if you get someone that is a bit anal about it being 110% exact match so better not to mention the match and just show them the colours.
Much appreciated.
Kev
-
it is best to print swatches from your design software, although printing the swatches from your rips demo files is sorta ok (as it works by name matching), the input/output profiles with PDF/Print/Eps also needs to be taken into account.
As I said the Capsule is a nice toy, but we found it a bit of a tease. Do you get that feeling of "it might have got it wrong" when using a device like that?!
Best with the naked eye and looking in the right light
Log in to reply.
