Re: PANTONE Color Cue
Re: PANTONE Color Cue
- Subject: Re: PANTONE Color Cue
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:40:33 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Dear David,
Thank you for your reply. I just called Pantone and they confirmed what you just wrote: the L*a*b values that the device indicates after sampling a color are the ones already pre-entered in it relative to the closest Pantone match it can detect. They are NOT actual and accurate L*a*b values (the way a spectrophotometer would be able to calculate), but just no more than a guess. The Color Cue is merely meant to do no more than taking out the guesswork in identifying Pantone matches.
Still, reading the copy describing the Color Cue in their URL (<http://www.pantone.com/products/products.asp?idSubArea=0&idArea=8&idProduct=373&idArticleType_Products=0>), one is led to think otherwise (by virtue of the writer's use of possibly conveniently obscure language)... until someone like you, David, intervenes to straighten out the confusion.
Thanks again.
Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden
Sent: Feb 9, 2005 6:10 AM
To: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>,
ColorSync Users Mailing List <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: PANTONE Color Cue
>>Has anyone made a comparison between the values recorded by the PANTONE Color Cue spectrocolorimeter and one of the currently available consumer-level spectrophotometers (say, the Eye-One, for example)?
The ColorCue does not display measured L*a*b* values; it choosing the closest Pantone spot color, and if you move forward in the menu from the default results, it then display's the predefined L*a*b* values for that Pantone color. So it is not appropriate the compare ColorCue values to those from a L*a*b* patch reading device.
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C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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