Rio pantone matching?

[IntegriTees]

Never had any problem with the pantone matching on the MX mixing system.  I have now spent over 4 hours trying to mix colors on the Rio system and I'm ending up having to record all of my changes to get the same color I had on the MX system.  Anyone else finding this challenge?  Also, I'm wondering why Wilflex only decided to include the coated pantones and none of the uncoated formulas.

[mk162]

That's a good question, but honestly, unless a customer requests it, we should default to coated.

the Pantone system is designed for paper printers.  Coated and uncoated is for paper stock and has nothing to do with t-shirts. 

[mimosatexas]

Plastisol will almost always look closer to coated and waterbased will almost always look closer to uncoated. This is due to the finished looks of the inks more than the actual tones of the color. For  screen printing on shirts I would think of coated as glossyou and uncoated as matte since that is basically what they mean when it comes to paper printing.

[Sbrem]

We go with coated; if they want an uncoated look, we can mix in a touch of white to gray it up, but they need to know that. It's been a long time since we've been asked for uncoated...

Steve