Re: What does "Pantone Certified" mean?
Re: What does "Pantone Certified" mean?
- Subject: Re: What does "Pantone Certified" mean?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:40:03 EDT
In a message dated 6/1/03 7:44:38 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I don't really get what this means.
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Does it mean the printer will print all the pantone colors exactly?
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Haven't you figured out yet that *nothing* in color management matches colors
"exactly"?
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Does it mean you get tech support from pantone if it doesn't?
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I suspect any tech support you qualify for will be from your printer
manufacturer or RIP developer, as the case may be.
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Or does it just mean they can have the words "Pantone" in their color
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list?
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Well, it does allow for that, but it also means that they have either
licensed the Pantone Lab values for their product, or Pantone has built conversion
tables for it, in the case of a hardware device.
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I don't see how being "Pantone Certified" will help me get PMS 300 out
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of my HP5000/Onyx combo.
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It may help you get more accurate Pantone matches by either supplying the
correct Lab values for Pantone colors for use in the RIP, or providing prematched
output colors for specific combinations of media and colorants in your
printer. More accurate than what? More accurate than not having these functions.
Thats not to say some other specialty system might not be more accurate still
(remember my first statement above).
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It doesn't appear to me that this printer is capable of making this
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color.
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For colors outside the printers gamut, common sense tells you that no exact
match is possible. But it might still be possible to produce a more acceptable
in-gamut emulation of that color. But the other common situation is that many
users don't think a printer/media/colorant combination is capable of a given
color (since they've never gotten it), until the right software/drive/profile
is used to reach that color... I've often heard the exclamation: "Wow. I didn't
know my printer could print that red!"
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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