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whats the best pantone colour bridge to buy?
Hi
It’s about time I got my own colour bridge, can anyone tell me which is the best one together and where from.
There’s so many out there and I would rather spend as little as possible but at the same time, I would rather get the right one.
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I bought Colour Bridge Plus series (coated). Absolutely one of the best decisions since getting my printer. I also got the pastels & metallics books, Pantone refs only, and have never used them!
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oh how interesting….whats a colour bridge???
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quote Cheryl Smith:oh how interesting….whats a colour bridge???😀
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Lol Martin
Cheryl, it’s a Pantone colour book, but with the RGB and CMYK comparable values as well, so you find the colour in the book and change the values on the computer to the RGB or CMYK values given.
They aren’t ever a straight match (or rarely are) so sometimes I have to look for something similar. Someone else will explain better. -
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Lorraine…thank you…understood…I rather hoped it was software which did perfect colour matching 😕 -
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Lorraine…thank you…understood…I rather hoped it was software which did perfect colour matching 😕
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Cheryl
Color Bridge has Solid Pantone colour with the CMYK Process colour shown next to it with cmyk values, also RGB values and HTML value.
It will give you a better understanding of colours that are difficult to match from
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awww…Thanks Dave for the PM on this subject…all clear now…
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Sorry if I’m missing something, haven’t read the thread completely but if you select a Pantone number in your software and then convert to CMYK (or RGB or whatever) it will give you the breakdown from Pantone?
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quote Warren Beard:Sorry if I’m missing something, haven’t read the thread completely but if you select a Pantone number in your software and then convert to CMYK (or RGB or whatever) it will give you the breakdown from Pantone?But you cant tell that what is on screen is the correct colour, with the swatch you can then check the printed CMYK against the printed Pantone colour to make sure you printer is right.
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As the saying goes, there’s an app for that My Pantone £5.99 handy
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Or if your using a roland get the Roland colour system Library even easier IMHO, that might suit you better Cheryl u got a Roland me thinks
John
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I’m all for iphone apps but nothing beats an actual chart, plus the iPhones are not calibrated so no better than a standard computer screen (there drops my shares in apple :D).
The reason why i’m interested in it is because if a client gives me a pantone colour I can use the colour bridge to get a close match, plus any items i send over to the printers will hopefully match what the client wants.
Lorraine, that’s the one i was looking at plus you get the pantone manager as well for adobe so you’ve got the new pantone colours on file to use.
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quote Ian Johnston:quote Warren Beard:Sorry if I’m missing something, haven’t read the thread completely but if you select a Pantone number in your software and then convert to CMYK (or RGB or whatever) it will give you the breakdown from Pantone?
But you cant tell that what is on screen is the correct colour, with the swatch you can then check the printed CMYK against the printed Pantone colour to make sure you printer is right.
I see, the bigger issue is though that what you see on the guide is not how your printer will print from the rip and on different medias.
I have the Versaworks colour guide printed on all my medias in laminated and unlaminated finishes so match the pantone number to my printed swatch and then I know I can reproduce that exact colour.
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Might be quite soon that versaworks will have a pantone system similar to the colour match system.
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the truth of colour management…
the pantone books are best guide for colour (as with paint swatches)
your screen (a dodgy £100 to professional £1000 screen) will show you a GUIDE reference to the colour but that can change depending if your working on the beach or at top of ben nevis. It is just a visual only!The pantone books are designed to help you keep you colours consistent across print/screen/etc etc
colour calibration will get your screen ‘near’ the colour, depending if your monitor has a wide and accurate gamut (spectrum of colour)
there is a ‘it will do’ attitidue amongst the sign trade and rightly so, getting perfection costs money but getting it wrong can cost. A client could turn around and say "thats not what I wanted, wrong colour" and it could only be a few shades out!
CMYK, subtractive colours… prints ‘most’ colours but not as good as a monitor which has a greater range of colours (RGB) primary colours.
A Pantone book normally is way out of gamut, may even be outside of RGB!
Did I mention LaB colours? that is a system has a greater range of colour… need I say more lol
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I use Signlab 9, almost latest version (there may have been an update since I bought mine) and Signlab 7.1.
The colours on screen are WAY out to my CMYK/Pantone /whatever colours, but, put the same files into Signlab 7.1, and they are almost an exact match, on-screen, to what I am trying to print.
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Chris
quote :Might be quite soon that versaworks will have a pantone system similar to the colour match system.
After years of kicking people for mentioning pantone i might be able to do something.They have (if you use MD5 and its not too different on other similar media) – I refer you to my earlier statement good sir!
John
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quote John Harding:Chrisquote :Might be quite soon that versaworks will have a pantone system similar to the colour match system.
After years of kicking people for mentioning pantone i might be able to do something.They have (if you use MD5 and its not too different on other similar media) – I refer you to my earlier statement good sir!
John
taken from the roland web site is this what you mean.
•Unlike many other printer manufacturers, Roland include their powerful and intuitive VersaWorks™ RIP software with every printer purchase. Latest features include:
◦Built-in Pantone® spot colour library
◦Roland Color Systemto my knowlage not available yet for all printers only the roland colour syatem.
if not tell me more pleasechris
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so ur backlit monitor (which shines into your eyes) and your print that bounces light from your striplight or daylight is the same? What about the light in the mornings and then the afternoon?
oh isnt colour management such a vast subject ! 😛
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