On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 14:36, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer@...400...> wrote:
I'm not trying to dissuade you from this, but the easier and more accurate route may be to just have them do a visual match at the printer. Unless your color workflow and theirs are extremely accurately matched to the pantone model, there's no way the outputs will really match. I'd have them print whatever you have on the laser, adjust it until it's a good color match to what you want, then pick a pantone color that matches the laser output.
Again, I'm not saying color correction isn't useful, but in this case I think there's a much simpler (and more accurate) way to go about it if you don't have an established workflow. Color matching to one color (if it's a relative match) should be simple enough in this manner. If you were doing a full-color layout, I'd definitely provide accurate cmyk output, but I don't see why you'd want to bust your brain over it in this case :)
Thanks for the advice. I think we'll take that route indeed. The CMJK "equivalent" of the Pantone does not look right on screen. I guess it will also be different on the printer.
Thanks again,
JiHO --- http://maururu.net