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Greetings all... Trying to match some colors in my current pantone chart and having a helluva time. Thought there was a way to just take a swatch over to Home Depot or Kelly Moore and have them do the match. These color mixing houses need a swatch just a hair larger than the PMS chart. (1" square would do the trick. I've always thought the charts were small-ish anyway. Had my supply house (PSS here in the west) send me out one but its a duplicate of the one we already use. I'm usually a pretty good shot on color matching, but I'll admit this one's throwing me. The grey (422) calls for reflex blue, black and transparent white. (Hey shorty, toss me a can of that "One-Shot" transparent white!)Any suggestions appreciated.A "Large Swatch" Pantone Chart would help for any such future problem matches.
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Hiya Randy, I recall seeing swatch books with 8.5 x 11 sheets of "tear out" colors. A quick search of pantone.com didn't turn up anything obvious though.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
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I did have a chart that has the large swatches, but it was so old the colours faded, so I tossed it. So yes they DID exist. But do you really need to have their computer match it? Can't you take your PMS chart and match the colour to one of their paint chips by eye? Sure you can! You are a signmaker/colour expert!
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PMS 422 can be made with One Shot paints by mixing Medium Grey with a dash of black.
Most hardware stores use a scanning device to determine the mixes to match color, but beware. Latex paints use transparent colors and bases. The same mixture ratios will not work for opaque paints like oil or alkyds. Different opacity, different results.
If you have a good calibration between your graphics program and your printer, just print a square with the PMS color you need on photo quality paper and use it as a swatch. Bump up the resolution/quality on the printer so that you get the best output (color coverage). The scanner will get a better read of it.
Hope this helps... Rapid
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The large swatches I have are for the paper colors. I guess pantone numbers had to do with colored paper products...still have it here somewhere, bought it years ago as it was much cheeper than the pantone color mixing fan book. Am not sure how accurate it was, being it was for paper products and not ink, but if I remember correctly the numbers were the same.
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