Re: Acceptable Delta E in Pantone Reproduction
Re: Acceptable Delta E in Pantone Reproduction
- Subject: Re: Acceptable Delta E in Pantone Reproduction
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:08:35 -0400
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> For Pantone colors, you need to define clearly what is it that you're trying
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> to match (i.e. the 'target'), IMO: is it the swatch you're holding in your
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> hand or a CIE Lab value given out by Photoshop or some other source? This
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> will all affect your degree of matching capability.
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Well this could open up a whole can of worms.
Indeed.
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For one now my question would also have to include how consistent are
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the pantone swatch books.
I never saw any PANTONE color variations study to be frank. And I don't know
too many people who will buy 10 swatch books from different parts of the
country to study their colorimetric variation. I imagine it must be rather
close but I am not in a position to risk quantifying that variation here.
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In the case I'm focusing on is how close should a printer be to the
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swatch book. Many printers mix the pantone colors inhouse.
Again, it boils down to what you and your client find acceptable.
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Color mixing must be getting better.
Better measuring methods means better matches.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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