Re: Pantone Colors in Quark Xpress
Re: Pantone Colors in Quark Xpress
- Subject: Re: Pantone Colors in Quark Xpress
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:24:20 EDT
In a message dated 10/1/01 3:50:22 PM, email@hidden writes:
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C. David Tobie has done some profiled Pantone work, but I don't know if
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it
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happened in Quark XPress. He may be able to provide more insight.
Oh sure, toss the mean nasty cases to me... <G> Don't have the original post
or a reference to it, so this is blind:
Pantone licenses spot colors for PostScript devices, where defining the color
as a Pantone spot color calls it out to a special definition for that
printer. This works well on laser devices where changing media doesn't change
the color much. Inkjets typically are much more sensitive to different
papers, and need special color settings for each. There products like
VectorPRO from Praxisoft that allow you to define, and if necessary tweak,
spot definitions for even these troublesome types of devices. This is still
based on PostScript printing and requires a RIP for your inkjet, and a
special color server to apply the spot colors such as ICC AutoFlow. Below
that we decend to color based not on Named Color Profiles, but Device
Profiles. That is less exacting, but still capable of pretty good results if
used carefully, for colors within the device gamut, and an appropriate
rendering intent. I wouldn't recommend leaving it to Quark to convert spot
colors for proofing, but InDesign does a pretty good job of it. Below that is
the scheme of using the Pantone Spot to Process guide to define yoour SWOP
color definitions, which is fine for output, but doesn't really address
proofing. This is the method where you tape the Pantone swatches to the side
of the comp, and say "the spot colors will actually look like that, not like
in the comp"...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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