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Prosperi-Tees:
Anyone have one they are replacing or just dont use anymore? Let me know.

Dottonedan:
What is a Pantone color (bridge)?

You mean a book or chart?

blue moon:
huh, the same Pantone book you use Dan!
for anybody wondering, it is a pantone book that has the CMYK swatch next to the spot color showing the closest aproximation that can be achieved with 4CP.

I had to fork out about $100 to get it. 'could not find a used one as they are a rather rare breed. Good luck!

pierre

ZooCity:
I never buy a used pantone fan book.  We beat the color out of them quickly enough. 

Go new, but be warned, Pantone has apparently devoted a lot of time in recent years to making color books specially designed to piss off printers and delight the purely digital designers.  The colors are no longer in numerical order and the stock is text weight now.

BTW, how does the color bridge work exactly?  Does it specify a color profile or what?  I know exactly squat about cmyk but I imagine if you aren't color calibrated from file to monitor to printer to book you bump into problems. 

Dottonedan:

No profiles.  Just the pms color on one side...and the printed cmyk equivalent on the other side. CMYK is always much more dull.  That is, If Pierre's correct.


My fan book says it's called a PANTONE Solid to Process Guide but my cover is torn off so it could have been on that cover.




--- Quote ---I know exactly squat about cmyk but I imagine if you aren't color calibrated from file to monitor to printer to book you bump into problems.
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Not really. Toss a dart and you'll hit the color eventually.  All of the color calibrations and gadgets are a fancy way of selling more stuff. Those who can afford to purchase that stuff and later put it on a shelf were already doing the big orders with 20 automatics and three shifts. Even then with all of the money to buy all that stuff, it only improves a good printer and separators print by say 5-7%.  The question is, is all of that effort (worth) that extra improvement?  I say no. If you are already that good of a printer that you can afford that stuff, then your customers are not going to increase orders with you when you do go through all that.

Not only do you have to purchase that stuff but you also then have to invest the time into learning how to do it and calibrating on a regular basis for an end product that has a flawed process filled with many many variables anyways.  Eliminate all the variables you can and keep consistent by documentation when something works and you will be fine.

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