Wednesday, December 31, 2014

color - How to get close to PMS 662 or PMS 296 in CMYK?


Basically I am trying to achieve Navy color or PMS 662 or PMS 296 with CMYK and having trouble. This will be used on Dye Sublimation print.


Is there any recommendation on how I should do with CMYK.


Thank you in advance.


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Answer



There's a few factors you need to deal with here:




  • Not all Pantone colors are reproducable via CMYK. (in fact, that's one of the reasons people use Pantone colors...to print in colors they normally can't with CMYK)

  • The Dye Sublimation may print CMYK colors differently than what you might see on a offset press.


The solution is likely going to be you creating a bunch of swatches of various blues (like you have above) and sending that to the printer and have them create a proof for you. Then use your eyes to find the color that you think will work best.


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