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Offline tonypep

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Pantone launches apparel collection
« on: January 22, 2014, 12:13:06 PM »
Its at Barneys and includes.........t-shirts


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Re: Pantone launches apparel collection
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 12:14:46 PM »
Its at Barneys and includes.........t-shirts

i saw the mugs and notebooks this past weekend in NYC. so crazy
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Re: Pantone launches apparel collection
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 12:44:41 PM »
I saw a Pantone paint display at a Lowe's last weekend.  After buying our last 4 books and dealing with the colors being all out of order and the junk paper I can't help but feel like they're tossing us printers (of all stripes) under the bus. 

Worst part is going to be the confusion in the general public on this when you ask for a Pantone color for reference...unless they have some consistency from the commercial sets to the consumer ones but I doubt that.

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Re: Pantone launches apparel collection
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2014, 01:05:10 PM »
I saw a Pantone paint display at a Lowe's last weekend.  After buying our last 4 books and dealing with the colors being all out of order and the junk paper I can't help but feel like they're tossing us printers (of all stripes) under the bus. 

Worst part is going to be the confusion in the general public on this when you ask for a Pantone color for reference...unless they have some consistency from the commercial sets to the consumer ones but I doubt that.

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you can take the books apart and resort in numerical order. I only managed a couple of weeks before I lost it and rearranged it.

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Re: Pantone launches apparel collection
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2014, 01:18:42 PM »
Pantone is a classic story of American ingenuity. Started by a med school dropout who worked at an offset co. Long story but he eventually bought the company. Frustrated by the void of color standards he set out to remedy that. They developed the proprietary inks and equipment that pretty much are still in use today, with some mods of course. Since they were the first and only company of its kind at the time, they quickly grew into the worldwide color standard they are today, for better or worse.
BTW the Pantone color of the year is Radiant Orchid

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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2014, 02:06:43 PM »
I've been meaning to do that, can't seem to get that plastic piece apart though.

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Re: Pantone launches apparel collection
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2014, 02:10:35 PM »
pry really hard...they put the screw head on there to fool you

Also, they have so many different versions that I am now getting numbers for colors that I am having to cross reference on their site...it's a huge pain.

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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2014, 03:06:56 PM »
They did fool me with that screw, bastards.

I don't get all the color additions either, they're making a mess of things and the new colors aren't adding much if anything. 

I do like my new color bridge coated book though.  They have a combo pack of Solid Coated and Color Bridge Coated that's perfect if you do screen printing and some digital so you don't wind up with the 90% useless uncoated book.