pixelnate wrote: > And Pantone colors are never properly duplicated in > CMYK values. That is the reason for the existence of spot colors.
As I know the Pantone samples are mixed inks, mixed from some clean pigments, e.g. a deep blue, which seems to be identical in color to fine artists true cobalt blue, which you cannot reproduce with cyan+magenta (which compares a little bit brownish). Pantone is a system to select and order premixed inks, which typically will be printed as 5th, 6th etc. separate/additional color. That's the reason, why printing machines for packaging or self-adhesive labels often are 6- or 8-color machines. Color management and correction of 4c-printing had an unbelievable progress the last 30 years, but still has to accept, that some colors are not reproducable - they are out of gamut, and most of them are lost at the first step from the 'nature' to the film/sensor in the camera. Helmut Wollmersdorfer
