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Amazing. Pantone inks are a spot color. They have colors that can't be hit using traditional printing process'. That is why they are used. I hate trying to explain to a designer that we can come close, but unless we use the exact formula to achieve that PMS 340 it won't be the same. If using a PMS swatch book to identify colors, think of it as the bus that gets you to the ballpark, because thats what you will get, something in the ballpark...
-------------------- Eric Patzer A.S.A.P. Design Lafayette, CO epatzer@earthlink.net Posts: 208 | From: Lafayette, CO USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Wonders never cease...I've been spouting the same mantra for 30 years. I have to admit my rantings have been less scientific...none the less they are acurate.
It's just good to see someone from "another world" has run into the same problems.
The sad part is the architects and designers will still be out there specifying pantone color matching system (like always) and disregard this article (if they even see it).
From here on out tho if the architect or designer can't provide their own "spectrophotometer" to check the colors I mix..."They can take this job and shove it"
Thanx Bob I needed the VENT!
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