which pantone colour guide 1

[Benluke]

Hi, ive just been asked to do quite a few two colour jobs. Im going to be using pantone spot colours. Since i havenot worked on two colour jobs before, usually full colour or web design i was wondering which pantone colour guide i should purchase. Ive been looking around they are fairly expensive so i was wondering which i should purchase as a general starter. Or is there a cheaper place i could by them from than say here

http://www.cherlyn.co.uk/pubs/pms.html

any advice help is much appreciated. will be using duatone images aswell

Thanks again
Ben(also posted in idesign forum)

 

[signal49]

As far as I know, Pantone books are going to cost about the same anywhere you get them.

The book we use at our shop (we do mostly spot color jobs) is the Formula Guide - Printer Edition, with coated and uncoated swatches. It's helpful to see how the same ink will look when it's on coated or uncoated stock... will help your clients decide what type of stock to go with. An important thing to keep in mind is that if you want a brighter color, like you'll see in the coated section, you can't just use the PMS Coated swatch from within your design program -- because it's not the ink that makes it appear brighter, it's the paper. So if the job will be printed on uncoated stock, use only the uncoated section in the book to choose your inks.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Another Good Pantone Book to get is the one which has the Pantone colour on one side and the CMYK break down on the other side, very handy when finding out how and which colours will convert across...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Benluke]

Thanks for info.

very much appreciated

MarcusStringer what do you exactly mean by "convert across"?

Thanks again

Ben

 

[MarcusStringer]

Not every pantone colour will convert exatally to CMYK
(they will, but they won't look the same).

eg. Pantone 542 when converted to CMYK will look like Pantone 542, but Pantone 541 when converted to CMYK will not look like Pantone 541.

So that's why you have to be careful when converting Pantone colours to CMYK. And that's why it good to have that book which lists colours which can be succesfully convert to CMYK...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Benluke]

ok i get it now.

will be getting my hands on said book and speaking to the printer about what type of paper these jobs will be printed on.

Thanks

Ben