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How The Pantone Matching System Works

To ensure you get the exact color-scheme you require, colour systems like the Pantone Matching System were developed. The most common spot colour standards in color printing is the Pantone Matching System or, PMS as it is more commonly known as.
Pantone Matching Systems Swatch Book Pantone Matching Systems Swatch Book
All of the modern image-editing, vector-drawing and page-layout programs come with a full library of thousands of Pantone colors as part of the program.You should have a set of printed PMS swatch books that show examples of the colors and their PMS colour codes. PMS swatches are a more truthful method of matching or choosing colors than on-screen. This is because monitors are illuminated by light behind them which makes colors seem brighter on-screen than they really are when printed on paper. Also, colors on the monitor are created with red, green and blue light (RGB) rather than mixed colour ink pigments like Pantone Spot Colors.

What is RGB Color?

Red
Green
Blue

RGB means Red, Green and Blue. CMYK is the colour profile used for full-color printing, RGB are the colors that monitors and televisions use to present colors to you. The hardware used in monitors and televisions project beams of light to fill the pixels on your screen. RGB is an additive system which means that when you add the three colors together, you get white. When none of the colors are present, you get black or without light. Images that you find on the Internet are in RGB mode or a variation of it called indexed color. When scans are created they are, by default, in RGB with most scanning software. RGB images divide the information into three “channels” while CMYK photo files divide the color between four “channels.” Therefore, CMYK images are bigger files and take up more space on transport media or a hard drive. For best color accuracy though, images should be scanned in the color mode of it’s final intented use. E.g. CMYK for color printing and RGB for on-screen viewing.

| What is CMYK Color? 4 basic plates, as shown below create the CMYK result.

Cyan Plate
Magenta Plate
Yellow Plate
Black Plate

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CYAN
MAGENTA
YELLOW
BLACK
CMYK refers to the printing inks used in four-color process printing. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black are the colors used to produce full-color photographs and designs. (An approximate representation of these colors is above).

4 CMYK Inks

4 CMYK Inks

These colors can be combined and printed to emulate a wide number of other colors. If you look carefully at a printed color photograph in any magazine or book, you’ll see that it’s made up of rows of tiny dots called a halftone screen. Overlapping CMYK Dots The dots work together, at multiple degrees of overlay, to trick your eyes into seeing a full spectrum of colours. For a graphics file to be printed in CMYK, it must be converted or created in that color mode for best results. When plates are made, a different plate is produced for each color. With modern equiptment the same digital infomration that processed weach plate is sent to the individual color units of the printing press.

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