Re: Matching Pantone Colors w/HP 5000 and Postershop
Re: Matching Pantone Colors w/HP 5000 and Postershop
- Subject: Re: Matching Pantone Colors w/HP 5000 and Postershop
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:44:27 -0400
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Can anyone point me to a how-to or document that describes setting up
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this combo for pantone color reproduction?
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Currently we're using a DTP41 with Monaco proof.
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Our cmyk ref profile is our own Matchprint we made.
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We use the "betterrgb" profile that came with Postershop.
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Our pantone reproduction sucks.
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Oddly, we get differnt results from rgb colors if we make them in
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Photoshop or Illustrator.
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We tag both files with the same rgb profile and give the same values to
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each.
Matching PANTONE colors optimally implies starting from a Lab specification
of the color and not a CMYK specification of the color. In the latter, the
final result is calculated from an already matched device color.
Where do you do your color conversions: in Postershop or in your host
application? If you were to use InDesign, for instance, you could specify
your PANTONE colors in Lab and match the PANTONE colors directly to your
printer color space right from InDesign's Print dialog box. Something you
can't do from Illustrator's current version as it does not support CIE lab
color space. If you do your color conversion inside Postershop I think you
can set up an 'named' color table to specify the conversion.
Regards,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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