Re: SWOP chart blunders

[Don Montalvo <dmjgraphics@earthlink.net>]

Shane Beers <beerssl@email.uc.edu> wrote:

>This might sound dumb, but what should I do with this? I printed it out to 
>see
>what my printer could do (the 1520), but besides that, what applications 
>can i
>get out of it?

If you need to produce prints with specific colors the chart will come in 
handy. Say you want a logo to come out as PMS 185 (red). Plugging in PMS 
186 in Illustrator, Quark or Photoshop will not get you that color. 
Output a chart using the settings you will be using for the final print, 
find the closest color to the target color and plug in that PMS color or 
convert to CMYK and plug in those values. Your output will match the 
color you picked off the chart. If a color falls in between two colors 
you can create a blend in Illustrator and find the color that matches 
your target color.
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