Going from web to print….need advice

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Jason_De_Donno
Jun 1, 2004
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Hi

I’m trying to match some web colours with Pantone ones. I don’t know how to do this professionally.

I thought, as a starting point, perhaps the thing to do would be to convert the RGB colors to the closest possible process colours, and then it should be possible to work out the PMS from the CMYK values, at least in theory. Is this possible?

Please advise.

Regards
Jason
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BobLevine
Jun 1, 2004
The RGB color gamut is much wider than CMYK meaning that you might not even get a close CMYK color.

In theory it might work. In practice you should get yourself a Pantone book and find the color you want that way.

Bob
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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 1, 2004
Or even better…have the client choose the colors from a pantone swatch book and sign off on them…That way there are no disputes after the piece is printed!!!(trust me…it will happen!)
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BobLevine
Jun 1, 2004
(trust me…it will happen!)

Yup, it sure will. For some reason it’s very hard to explain why the inkjet printout of the PDF I sent to the client doesn’t match the Pantone color off the press.

Bob
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Jason_De_Donno
Jun 2, 2004
Hi

Thanks for the tips. I know, final thing is to check it with a Pantone booklet – but…

I need at least a starting point. Let’s suppose I find a good CMYK match for a RGB colour. They are all fairly dark colours and I haven’t had any gamut warnings come up, so this is looking good. How can I use these CMYK values to find a close matching pantone? I don’t have a swatch book, so I wondered if there was some kind of table somewhere that I could look up?

Thanks in advance
Jason
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Jason_De_Donno
Jun 2, 2004
OK, I found it. In Photoshop you can do it in the colour picker window.
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Robbie_Boyer
Jun 2, 2004
Just remember that as CMYK cannot match all he RGB colours, nor can CMYK match up all the pantone colours.

They do a fair job with some of the colours but unfortunately there are some that will not reproduce well in a CMYK state.

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