Philip Luppens schrieb: > Thanks for the swift reply. Ok, so, let's me summarize it and please correct > me afterwards. Like I said, I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this. > > So, am I correct when I say that Pantone is not an ICC color space ? So it's > not like the printing department can just send me an ICC file, which I then > specify in <output-profile> and everything will be fine ? Bummer :-)
No, Pantone sells color swatches. You go to your printer, say this color looks nice (on the given paper) and he then knows how to mix the ink that the color looks like the one you chose. There is no real way of converting CMYK (or RGB) colors to "Pantone" or the other way round. Many software applications (like Photoshop) contain matching tables which give you an estimation of how the color will look like on a given paper (usually coated and/or uncoated paper). You can find some of these tables on the internet, but it't not possible to include them in open source software. You don't use Pantone colors like RGB or CMYK, they are spot colors or used for colors like metallic or gold/silver. Usually, a company has a letterhead with only one specific color, that's specified in Pantone (or HSK, which is used mainly in Germany, but essentially the same). Imagine offset printing: if printing CMYK, your printer will have four plates (one for every color). The pictures are rasterized and the four colors will mix to give your eye the right color. If you are printing using some Pantone spotcolors, your printer will have one plate for Pantone #XX, one for Pantone #XY and so on. #XX may be a specific green, #XY may be gold and so on. Usually, they are not rasterized like the CMYK-plates, but contain the solid color (which means, red and blue won't give you violet). Please have a look at the internet, there are some good articles about this topic, as it pops up every now and then. Philipp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
