Re: Pantone Fabric to SWOP
Re: Pantone Fabric to SWOP
- Subject: Re: Pantone Fabric to SWOP
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:30:56 EST
In a message dated 11/21/00 8:23:24 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Does Pantone provide a cross-reference between its FABRIC color swatches
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and
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SWOP percentages? You'd think they would. I can't find reference to it
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anywhere from them though.
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There is a rather large gap between fabrics, with their textures, gloss
factors, etc... (and their D65 spherical spectro readings) and CMYK SWOP
percentages calculated through D50 LAB. A spectral data based software
package is usually used for such conversions in the textile industry, such as
ColorRite. To simply move the color data to SWOP would almost guarantee a
visual mismatch.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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