"Pantone Process" Inks
"Pantone Process" Inks
- Subject: "Pantone Process" Inks
- From: Todd Shirley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:49:30 -0500
Hello everybody
This isn’t exactly color management but I’m hoping one of you has experience with this topic.
What exactly is the difference between Pantone Process Inks (PANTONE Process Cyan, PANTONE Process Megenta, PANTONE Process Yellow, PANTONE Process Black) and "standard" CMYK process inks? I work with a designer who insists her work should be printed with Pantone Process inks, not "Standard CMYK". She is under the impression that Pantone Process inks will produce a wider gamut or will reporoduce "better" in some way. I have always believed that a CMYK image will look the same with either "kind" of inks because in fact there is no difference.
I had actually made this inquiry of Pantone a couple years ago, and they supported my position that there isn't any such thing as "pantone process inks" and that the shading for all CMYK primaries is governed under ISO 2846-1. However, not only does the designer persist in her belief that these are different inks, she has 2 different printers and another vendor who agree with her and insist that printing with "pantone process" produces better results than standard CMYK. One of the printers said they mix their own "pantone process inks." Is this really a thing? Is it perhaps just a higher quality ink? Does anybody know what they are talking about?
I had settled this in my mind years ago, but just recently was in a meeting with the above client, vendors and printers and was somewhat angrily rebuffed when I dismissed “pantone process” out of hand. So maybe I’m the crazy one. If so, please correct me!
Thanks
-Todd Shirley
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