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Pantone References
Guys a very quick one and it is only because a statement a supplier made has confused me!!
If i download an eps file and print it, as supplied by the client, the pantone colours they normally used will be automatically contained in the file and my print will come out an exact match to his current signage colour scheme?
Might seem a stupid question but I am doubting myself here!!
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4 Replies
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no it won’t mate, printers and rips determine colour differently and so all printers will have a variable amount of difference. It won’t work and will print the way your printer "thinks" the colour should be.
the closest way I know of it to get a printed sample or pantone number and match it to a swatch printed from your printer on the media you are to use.
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The ink you use as well as the media will also change the output as will the profile and colour management if it is on. As warren says print out a swatch and match from that.
Steve
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They can supply a pantone reference but I take it I need a pantone swatch to compare the colours with my printer?
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quote Ruairi O’Boyle:They can supply a pantone reference but I take it I need a pantone swatch to compare the colours with my printer?yes that’s how I do. I have a swatch with a lot of CMJN combination printed with my Mimaki . When a customer ask for a special pantone color, I take my Pantone swatch that I bought and find on my CMJN chart which CMJN combination match the pantone color best and then replace the color in the vector file with this CMJN code.
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