Pantone help

[Phill Fenton]

Corel has a pantone colour pallete – just use that.

[Phill Fenton]

If you can’t find the palette – values are as follows:-

1505 = C0, M38, Y76, K0 or R255, G140, B68
294 = C100, M56, Y0, K18 or R48, G88, B134

[John Childs]

quote John Harding:

how do i get close

Unfortunately you don’t. 🙁

I’ve just bought the official Pantone Colour Bridge swatch, giving the nearest CMYK to Pantone numbers, and it is alarming how far away some of the colours are.

[John Harding]

thanks guys for your help 😉

John

[Peter Normington]

quote John Childs:

quote John Harding:

how do i get close

Unfortunately you don’t. I’ve just bought the official Pantone Colour Bridge swatch, giving the nearest CMYK to Pantone numbers, and it is alarming how far away some of the colours are.

John, I often show my pantone chart to clients who want a pantone match,
showing them the CMYK nearest,
problem is, they invariably question why I cant print the colour that is has obviously been printed on the chart
😕

Peter

[Tim Painter]

The SPOT colour Pantone and CMYK system have different colour Gamut.

If anyone is looking at buying a Pantone book I would suggest a Solid (Spot colour) to Process ( CMYK) chart.

As John Childs said you will be amazed at how different some SPOT colors can be printed under CMYK printing.

Thus why many coporates will have a spec for RGB, CMYK, SPOT colours, RAL Colours etc etc etc. So branding is consistent for each type of print or paint method.

Its just another thing we have to explain to clients and a side by side solid to process chart does help try and explain this.

In simple terms some colours are impossible to cross match.

If the SPOT colour does have a very close CMYK match the next headache is a calibrated print system, profiles, media..the list goes on.

[Daniel Kneebone]

Try this colour bridge – CMYK pdf

I use it quite a bit and has proven well!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33104/Pantone … Tm-Cmyk-Ec

Not sure if this is what you were after but it surely helps!

Daniel

[Alan Drury]

As others have mentioned a cmyk equivalent to a Pantone colour can be miles off, Reflex Blue a common colour is a good example but sometimes you can get a better match by changing the Pantone colour to RGB or LAB and then changing to CMYK.
Different versions of Corel have different Pantone to cmyk tables and I think these come from Pantone, generally later versions of Corel are generally more accurate but only to a degree. All this is purely academic if your monitor and colour management is not set up.
Alan D