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Production for Print
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Production for Print

by Mark Gatter
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
6h 36m
English
Laurence King
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Using Pantone Colors

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As well as RGB and CMYK there is another color system that you are likely to encounter in the world of print: The Pantone range. These can be used as an extension of the possibilities for someone without the budget, or the need, to print using the four-color process, but who wants something more exciting than just a single color. The swatch book covering the “Pantone Solid Coated/Uncoated” range allows the viewer to see how each one of several thousand colors, each of which can be accurately mixed to a given formula, will print on coated and uncoated white stock. Printers will often offer to mix the ink themselves (cheaper but less accurate) or to buy it premixed (accurate, but more expensive).

Pantone colors ...

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