cant choose Pantone color

[Greg]

I have text on my form that i want Reflex Blue. I highlight the text, go to
font color, choose Pantone, pick reflex blue, and the font turns blue. When
i print or convert to PDF, it seems to convert to CMYK which i dont want. I
dont know whats going on. Im using publisher 2003

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Pantone is CMYK, so I'd kinda expect that...no?


|I have text on my form that i want Reflex Blue. I highlight the text, go
to
| font color, choose Pantone, pick reflex blue, and the font turns blue.
When
| i print or convert to PDF, it seems to convert to CMYK which i dont want.
I
| dont know whats going on. Im using publisher 2003

 

[Ed Bennett]

Pantone is CMYK, so I'd kinda expect that...no?

No it isn't...
Pantone is specialist spot colours (many of which can't even be decently
approximated by CMYK colours).

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Pantone's not CMYK? Now I'm confused.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > Pantone is CMYK, so I'd kinda expect that...no?
|
| No it isn't...
| Pantone is specialist spot colours (many of which can't even be decently
| approximated by CMYK colours).
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
| http://ed.mvps.org/
|
|

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

reflex blue:

c:100
m:73
y:0
k:2

I think.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > Pantone is CMYK, so I'd kinda expect that...no?
|
| No it isn't...
| Pantone is specialist spot colours (many of which can't even be decently
| approximated by CMYK colours).
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
| http://ed.mvps.org/
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

reflex blue:

c:100
m:73
y:0
k:2

That's a process colour equivalent. If you choose Pantone spot colours and
export them as such, they will actually use a pre-made Pantone ink in
exactly that colour.

 

[Ed Bennett]

reflex blue:

c:100
m:73
y:0
k:2

Have a gander at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

But if you're dealing with ink aren't you always in CMYK workspace (or
should be) and Pantone is spot color ink right? So, why shouldn't Pantone
Reflex Blue want to be converted to CMYK in a PDF intended for print ?

I don't even know what I mean now...sheesh. I'll have to ask my bro.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > reflex blue:
| >
| > c:100
| > m:73
| > y:0
| > k:2
|
| Have a gander at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
| http://ed.mvps.org/
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

But if you're dealing with ink aren't you always in CMYK workspace (or
should be) and Pantone is spot color ink right? So, why shouldn't
Pantone Reflex Blue want to be converted to CMYK in a PDF intended
for print ?

If you're working for DESKTOP print, then you should work in the RGB colour
space - when you print in Windows, everything gets converted to RGB to send
to the printer driver, which then converts it to CMYK.

If you're working for COMMERCIAL print (which is what I was assuming), then
you work in CMYK + Spots, or just spots. The printer uses the spots instead
of or in addition to the process colours on the press.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Generally I use desktop print if I'm bringing it to Kinkos, if I'm my bro is
doing the printing with real inky stuff I work with commercial print.

This thread is hurting my head...there's all sorts of dead brain cells
collecting on the floor arount my chair


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > But if you're dealing with ink aren't you always in CMYK workspace (or
| > should be) and Pantone is spot color ink right? So, why shouldn't
| > Pantone Reflex Blue want to be converted to CMYK in a PDF intended
| > for print ?
|
| If you're working for DESKTOP print, then you should work in the RGB
colour
| space - when you print in Windows, everything gets converted to RGB to
send
| to the printer driver, which then converts it to CMYK.
|
| If you're working for COMMERCIAL print (which is what I was assuming),
then
| you work in CMYK + Spots, or just spots. The printer uses the spots
instead
| of or in addition to the process colours on the press.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
| http://ed.mvps.org/
|
|