Re: Print simulation with Pantone Spot Colors
Re: Print simulation with Pantone Spot Colors
- Subject: Re: Print simulation with Pantone Spot Colors
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:05:56 -0600
Josef Fallnhauser <email@hidden> writes:
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One of the pantone colors was 432 C.
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So I tried different methods for the spot colors.
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Once I set the Pantone color up as spot color.
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Once I set the color up as 23/3/0/77 specified in the solid to process
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folder.
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Once I measured the color on the Pantone folder with my Spectrolino with the
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Offset printer Profile and got a reading of 79/67/45/48.
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They all looked almost the same on the Iris print - to bright.
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So is there anybody who can tell me why the printer simulation with pictures
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works correct but not with spot colors?
Unless you built the CMYK background from scratch without specifying it
as a Pantone color to being with (whether it's spot or process won't
matter), InDesign, like QuarkXPress and Illustrator, will include BOTH
the Pantone name/number and the CMYK equivalent to be used in the
PostScript stream.
That you get the same results for each of these methods tells me your RIP
is ignoring the CMYK values you specify, and is doing its own Pantone
look-up. 23C, 3M, 0Y, 77K won't print the same as 79C, 67M, 45Y, 48.
Similar, but not the same.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932
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