Pantone Color Cue
Pantone Color Cue
- Subject: Pantone Color Cue
- From: "Cielia Kaufman" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:47:35 -0600
Questions from a color novice:
We are also thinking of getting the Pantone Color Cue... I'm not sure if it
is what we need though and I am just starting to learn about color,
calibration, profiles, etc.
What we need to do at our company is sample the color from a product and
then put a hex value into our software, which then will display that product
color on CRT and LCD monitors, and then get printed out. However, the
customers who use our software don't have any calibration or profiles for
their monitors or printers, and probably won't spend to money to do so. So
our problem, I believe, lies not in the accurate representation of the color
in the end result, which would be our clients responsibility, but in the
most accurate selection of color from product samples to begin with.
(And if our clients did want to calibrate on their end: No, we do not even
have a color management system in place that our clients to match to yet...
you can see what kind of state our color management is in)
Presently we painfully match each color on an Optical calibrated monitor in
Photoshop on a CRT monitor, then do the same on an LCD monitor because we
felt that there was a difference in how LCD and CRT displayed colors. I
don't really trust this system - does it have some merit? It seems too
simple and uninformed. We also used to physically print out colors to match
them to the product, which, inevitably, became obviously inexact, since our
printer is not calibrated to anything, and the color shifted dramatically
over a few months. So all in all, we have a hex value for a color that gets
viewed on CRT, another hex value for the same color that gets viewed on LCD
and then we just paste the CRT value we came up where the old print value
would go.
I hope this isn't too green...
-Cielia
Pantone Color Cue
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Message: 6
From: email@hidden
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:19:07 EDT
Subject: Re: Pantone Color Cue
To: email@hidden, email@hidden
In a message dated 10/20/03 11:50:58 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Pantone Color Cue: Any end-user reports/opinions available?
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>
I've been seeing the ads for some months, now The Boss is Asking
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Questions & Making Plans.
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This device has not gotten much respect from color consultants. This may be
in part due to a difference between what its designed to do, and what they
want
it to do. If you think of it as simply a handy device for grabbing a color
from a printed source, and spec-ing the closest Pantone spot color to it,
then
you should be quite happy with it. If you try to make it do stunts, measure
delta-e differences, build profiles, and give you the same value as a
measured
patch in any old Pantone fan deck you happen to have, then you may be
dissapointed. Please keep in mind, when you race it against your
SpectroLino, that its
not actualy giving you the Lab value of the patch you measure, but rather
the
Lab value of the Pantone color that it chooses as the closest match for that
sample.
C. David Tobie
email@hidden
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