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PANTONE® Colors
PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE gives access to a wide range of standard pre-defined
colors that you can use when creating materials that will be professionally produced
using litho printing. Using PANTONE color numbers enables a more reliable way of
reproducing known colors. For example, the Scottish Parliament has defined that the
blue color used in the Scottish flag be PANTONE 300. This means anyone
reproducing the flag can be sure to get the correct shade of blue.
PANTONE colors can be used two ways. The "spot color" expensive way involves
your commercial printer using special inks that are exact PANTONE colors. So when
you specify, say PANTONE 120 (a shade of yellow), the printer purchases an ink that
is exactly this shade of yellow. This is expensive because it requires special inks to be
used. It’s usually only economically viable if you require large or very large production
runs. This is sometimes referred to as PANTONE solid or spot colors.
The alternative, less expensive way, is to use PANTONE 4-COLOR PROCESS colors,
which use a mix of the standard CMYK inks to re-create a given color, sometimes
called a Process Color. This is less exact because mixing CMYK inks to create a given
color is not as reliable as using a solid pure ink of the required color. However it
provides a way of ensuring much more accurate color reproduction than judging
colors by eye or assuming your computer monitor screen or inkjet printer is accurate
(computer screens and desktop printers vary quite considerably).
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 also supports both type of PANTONE color
system. You can use them as spot or solid colors or use the PANTONE 4-COLOR
PROCESS library which defines exact mixes of CMYK colors. You can find the
PANTONE color libraries in the
COLOR GALLERY.
Introduction
PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE gives access to a wide range of standard pre-defined
colors that you can use when creating materials that will be professionally produced
using litho printing. Using PANTONE color numbers enables a more reliable way of
reproducing known colors. For example, the Scottish Parliament has defined that the
blue color used in the Scottish flag be PANTONE 300. This means anyone
reproducing the flag can be sure to get the correct shade of blue.
PANTONE colors can be used two ways. The "spot color" expensive way involves
your commercial printer using special inks that are exact PANTONE colors. So when
you specify, say PANTONE 120 (a shade of yellow), the printer purchases an ink that
is exactly this shade of yellow. This is expensive because it requires special inks to be
used. It’s usually only economically viable if you require large or very large production
runs. This is sometimes referred to as PANTONE solid or spot colors.
The alternative, less expensive way, is to use PANTONE 4-COLOR PROCESS colors,
which use a mix of the standard CMYK inks to re-create a given color, sometimes
called a Process Color. This is less exact because mixing CMYK inks to create a given