It's important to say, that PMS DON'T look the real color most of the time on screen. It's VERY important to have a PMS printed chart when you choose colors.
The chart may cost a lot, depending on what chart you have (one with coated and uncoated colors might cost you 125$ Canadian. But it's a tool they will use most of their life if they do print...
Also, it's better to look at colors on the chart in natural light if possible, because neon adds blue, and normal bulbs add yellow.
Also, again, hehe, some PMS don't convert exactly in CMYK (this is if you have lets say a logo you created with PMS, and then you have to do a catalog that will be printed in CMYK).
4 little dots placed in a square kinda like this : : will indicate colors that are printable in CMYK. Be carefull on the colors used for that matter!
one clarifying question...could you explain this a bit more: "4 little dots placed in a square kinda like this : : will indicate colors that are printable in CMYK. Be carefull on the colors used for that matter!"
In print, you can print in CMYK (on a big press printer, bubble jet (personnal printer) or numeric...) and in PMS colors only (example, if you have a business card in two PMS only, it costs less to print). Some Press have a possibility of one or 2 PMS you can add, but it's very costy.
In the PMS chart, under each colors is usually the composition of the color (usefull for the printer so the guy can calibrate is good), the number os the PMS,
and sometimes, and sometimes not depending on the color, there will be 4 dots symbol.
When the symbol is there, it means the color is printable in CMYK press.
If the symbol isn't there, it means the colors are just printable as PMS colors.
Fontenik, I Have to say this has helped me out tremendously. I'm going to have to print this thread and show it to my boss, cause she doens't understand this whole thing with CMYK and PMS color thing as well as she thinks she does.
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