Problems with CMYK Colours

[KGinley]

I am having a nagging problem when placing images in InDesign that contain my company's main colour Pantone 287 C (C: 100 M: 90 Y: 10 K: 0). When I place images with that colour as the background over an InDesign object of the same pantone, one can see a difference between image and the object once printed. The colours are identical in InDesign, but a difference can be noted once the document is printed.

I have been fiddling with the Colour Settings, trying to make the Photshop File and the InDesign have the same CMYK colour setting COATED FOGRA27 (ISO 12647-2:2004)

Anyone have an idea why there's a discrepency in colour? Thanks.

 

[jmgalvin]

If one is spot (pantone) and one is process, you should see a difference. Sometimes it's huge. The only sure thing is to make them both process or spot.

If you're bringing images in from other apps and the color is off (pretty common with photoshop), it's best to bring in the image than use the eyedropper in indesign to grab the color and make the swatch from that. The one wekenss there is that, if you bring in an eps, the colors might be off. Bring that same color into ID as AI, Tiff, etc just to grab the color.

I'm assuming that everything is in the same color mode and color managed the same or that no color management is used.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4