Drazan
09-30-2006, 12:20 PM
I've been told that I can use either CMYK or Pantone and that it will merge down in the eps or PDF that I create.
That doesn't fly with me at all.
Since we have digital printers I've been trying to do everything in CMYK. No problem for me.
But now there's an in house job that has a combination of Pantone and CMYK colors and somewhere it's picking up a control color in Corel Draw as well. We are about to print a proof on Monday/Tuesday of our new 15 page catalog/brochure.
My monitor is so ancient - it thinks red is brown (yes, I've tried umpteen different settings in adobe gamma, programs and on the monitor itself, no go). So matching on screen is less than useless. I do have a very large CMYK chart to reference, but I fille like an office monkey going back and forth between chart and computer. I should have new equipment within the next 3 months. Yeah for me being technical director too. Until then, I bring in my laptop to do any color conversion.
So is it best to just forget about the whole pantone palettes and stick to CMYK or does the process converting to EPS or PDF really make the whole point moot, as according to a coworker whose only worked in wide format digital print?
=)
Jade
That doesn't fly with me at all.
Since we have digital printers I've been trying to do everything in CMYK. No problem for me.
But now there's an in house job that has a combination of Pantone and CMYK colors and somewhere it's picking up a control color in Corel Draw as well. We are about to print a proof on Monday/Tuesday of our new 15 page catalog/brochure.
My monitor is so ancient - it thinks red is brown (yes, I've tried umpteen different settings in adobe gamma, programs and on the monitor itself, no go). So matching on screen is less than useless. I do have a very large CMYK chart to reference, but I fille like an office monkey going back and forth between chart and computer. I should have new equipment within the next 3 months. Yeah for me being technical director too. Until then, I bring in my laptop to do any color conversion.
So is it best to just forget about the whole pantone palettes and stick to CMYK or does the process converting to EPS or PDF really make the whole point moot, as according to a coworker whose only worked in wide format digital print?
=)
Jade