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Just Google pantone color chart you will find some.
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What I consider a better chart, is one that identifies cmyk values contained in each of the chips. Print one on your vinyl stock & one on your banner stock. Then just show to your customer, or compare to your pantone swatches, match the cmyk values in your file... & print with predictable results.
If your swatch files contain pantone numbers... and they are off, which most likely, many of them will be... all the chart does is tell you they will be off... not how to fix them. It will stilll work like a decoder to say this is what you can get, and these pantone numbers is how I can get it... but if they are not the true pantone color, that just seems like the wrong way to go.
You can download the CMYK charts at printingdigital.net
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Just one little tidbit to remember: If your printer and the material you're printing on isn't calibrated with a spectrophotometer and using the right color profile, you'll wind up with something "close" but not exact; and that's the whole idea behind the PMS chart - an EXACT match.
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Thanks everybody for all the responces-again this community is always the most helpful!
I guess I should have clarified what I was looking for a little better-what I was trying to find is a color chart so I can have a reference point so if I need a certain color, I'll at least know what one to use-it doesn't have to exactly match the Pantone chart per se-the clientele we deal with at my work isn't that fussy (fortunately!)
-------------------- Kenny Lund Phenomenon Designs Farmingdale, NJ Posts: 72 | From: Farmingdale, New Jersey | Registered: Mar 2005
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