Re: Pantone Color Cue
Re: Pantone Color Cue
- Subject: Re: Pantone Color Cue
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:42:32 EDT
In a message dated 10/22/03 12:01:11 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Questions from a color novice:
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We are also thinking of getting the Pantone Color Cue... I'm not sure if it
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is what we need though and I am just starting to learn about color,
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calibration, profiles, etc.
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What we need to do at our company is sample the color from a product and
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then put a hex value into our software, which then will display that product
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color on CRT and LCD monitors, and then get printed out. However, the
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customers who use our software don't have any calibration or profiles for
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their monitors or printers, and probably won't spend to money to do so.
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Then its rather a waste of your time to worry about precise color
measurements, if they aren't going to follow through in any way to consistant colors for
your clients. If there is some other end use then your clients monitors and
printers, perhaps there is still a reason to do this; if not, its rather a waste
of time without client color management of some kind.
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So
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our problem, I believe, lies not in the accurate representation of the color
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in the end result, which would be our clients responsibility, but in the
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most accurate selection of color from product samples to begin with.
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Only if this results in accurate color for your end use, whatever that may
be...
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(And if our clients did want to calibrate on their end: No, we do not even
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have a color management system in place that our clients to match to yet...
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you can see what kind of state our color management is in)
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Yup...
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Presently we painfully match each color on an Optical calibrated monitor in
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Photoshop on a CRT monitor, then do the same on an LCD monitor because we
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felt that there was a difference in how LCD and CRT displayed colors.
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Indeed there is, but since its not the same from one LCD to another, this is
rather a futile effort. You can define an AdobeRGB or sRGB color, and use
OptiCAL profiles to convert this color to MonitorRGB for a given CRT or LCD
without any trial and error; or visa versa, if that is of some use to you.
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I
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don't really trust this system - does it have some merit?
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Not that I can see from your description...
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It seems too
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simple and uninformed.
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Simple is good... but uninformed is a polite way to say that it isn't
designed to do the job properly, which is true enough.
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We also used to physically print out colors to match
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them to the product, which, inevitably, became obviously inexact, since our
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printer is not calibrated to anything, and the color shifted dramatically
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over a few months.
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Unprofiled, and unstable to boot, thus long-term unprofilable... I'd guess
you have a low cost color laser printer by that description.
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So all in all, we have a hex value for a color that gets
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viewed on CRT, another hex value for the same color that gets viewed on LCD
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and then we just paste the CRT value we came up where the old print value
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would go.
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I hope this isn't too green...
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It may be too green in one case, and too red in another. Clearly no one is
getting paid to produce accurate color in your workflow. The question is whether
you can make a case that accurate color would have value for your company or
clients. If so, you can ask the question of how much its worth, and get
started on a project to determine how best to institute color management within that
budget.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Inc.
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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