![]() Most of the machines are profiled using Pantone Solid Coated colors (in the US, your mileage may vary elsewhere.) You want to be leaving the spot color callout in there even though the machines spew CMYKcmkOGV inks (no DON’T get the Pantone extended gamut books…Grrrrrrrr.) There are reasons a printer may “convert all spots to process” - most of them having to do with transparency issues - but don’t do it for them. In wide format, you don’t want to be just pressing the convert button. Good luck with that though… Sometimes you have to work with a print vendor to get proper CMYK conversion of spot, if the spot is even within the gamut of the inkset. So you look through the Bridge and see if you can find a CMYK equivalent to your Spot color and use those numbers instead. A Bridge will show you a Pantone spot color, and right next to it show you what its CMYK values will look like on a conventional CMYK press (not wide format, that’s a whole other can of worms.) More often than not, they are completely different colors. If you can lay hands on a Pantone Bridge you’d know what I was talking about. The CorelDraw values result in a brownish result rather than the maroon I was hoping for, I think the Pantone Color Finder is likely to give a better result. Pantone Color Finder suggests C1 M98 Y58 K44. Example: Pantone+ Solid Coated V4 202 C, converts to C26 M100 Y92 K33. A lot of times, you want a different CMYK combination to get the color you intended. The CMYK value returned are different to the Pancone Color Finder. ![]() ![]() It depends on why you are doing this conversion.įor instance, in 4-color printing, just converting the Pantone to its CMYK values isn’t enough to get a match. ![]()
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