Craig, After some research on your answer, I repeat my question about a way to know from a physical "yardstick" what your colour will look like on paper, that is on a specific type of paper assuming your printer uses it and does not take liberties with it? Well actually I thought this was the purpose of such colour swatches, to get a client to pick his colours there, and be sure the output will match.
I know Pantone publishes colour swatches which may be used to order specific inks (then inserted as spot colours), but could you then tell me which tool makes a link between a colour on the screen and the coding used there, which I don't care if it looks good or not (and calibrating a monitor is NOT an option because I work on a general market laptop screen) and a final paper result (fortunately I do not have to work with fabric or other fancy physical output) which I have to be sure of... before the money is spent. Alright bottomposting there, not sure if I follow the etiquette. > Now, if we treated the CMYK values as (eg) SWOP Coated, and did an > appropriate CMYK->CMYK conversion to the press profile, that I could > make sense of. We don't however, and the press is very far indeed from > anything like SWOP Coated in its characteristics. Cedric
