Help with Spectratone or Pantone Colors

[mx377]

First off, Thank you for looking at my post.

I'm in need of some help!
I had a customer walk in yesterday & inform me that the colors for his graphics MUST match
these pantone colors:
122c
163c
190c
245c
271c
278c
325c

I have searched everywhere for a chart or a list to tell me what foils are close to these colors.

I use gerber foils, ZeroNine foils & Signlab for software.

I know about the Spectratone book, but I don't have the extra $500 for it.

Can anyone help me out?
Thanks again for your time!

 

[mx377]

I've added the Gerber Omega/Composer ingredients above.

That being said...I've found Spectratone to PMS matches to be less than ideal.

I would suspect that having the job printed by someone with a solvent printer may be easier than matching with Edge - I don't know about you but I'm missing half the foils on that list.

Good luck.

Holy Cow! Thank you for the reply!

Your right that would be a pain.

In your opinion what spot colors would be close to the PMS?
I could print one off with the spots & see if he even can tell a difference.

 

[mx377]

I'm just on my way out... but if you've got a pantone book and the foils other than the spectra tint you can always try them without it.

Have a great Night! I do not have a pantone book.... I was just going by color on screen & I know that will not be right..

Hope to see a reply in the morning.

Thanks again for all your help!

 

[Billct2]

There is way to print a spectratone chart of you own, don't remember how I did it, it was years ago.
And getting a PMS book is a must in this business, so you at least know what you're shooting for.
That being said I would sub it to a wholesaler, lot less time, aggravation and cost.

 

[Tony Teveris]

There is a app w/ Omega called Spectra32.exe found in the Omega software folder. With this you can print any number of combos.

 

[Tony Teveris]

From the Omega app GSPCLRID.EXE you can do all kinds of color lookups.

Here I selected PANTONE+ as the source palette, Spectratone as the Matching palette

In the source enter the PANTONE # (ex 122) hit the DOWN ARROW and see your matches.

If you wish to post/copy the matches in text form just hit F11 and the info is posted on the clipboard and looks like this:

Source: PANTONE+ Solid Coated (Family=800F) Color: PANTONE 122 C (1443)
Lab: 86.43,7.10,73.14

Target:
1: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / ProcessPro - Yellow GCP-805
Lab: 90.42,5.34,75.89 delta: 5.2

2: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
Lemon Yellow GCS-155 / Beige GCS-049
Lab: 81.15,4.00,75.77 delta: 6.7

3: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / Lemon Yellow GCS-155
Lab: 88.48,-0.09,68.24 delta: 8.9

4: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / Yellow GCS-015
Lab: 87.13,13.64,79.26 delta: 9.0

5: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
ProcessPro - Yellow GCP-805 / Beige GCS-049
Lab: 81.41,7.51,83.52 delta: 11.5






Source: PANTONE+ Solid Coated (Family=800F) Color: PANTONE 163 C (4162)
Lab: 75.80,36.92,42.79

Target:
1: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / Kumquat GCS-074
Lab: 78.46,39.64,55.52 delta: 13.3

2: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / Trans Gold GCT-105
Lab: 69.54,22.52,45.43 delta: 15.9

3: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
Lemon Yellow GCS-155 / Pink GCS-643
Lab: 67.07,44.28,57.49 delta: 18.6

4: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
SpectraTINT GCX-030 / Orange GCS-014
Lab: 59.94,48.43,40.54 delta: 19.7

5: Gerber Spectratone (Family=800E)
Kumquat GCS-074 / Imitation Gold GCS-105
Lab: 61.84,33.25,58.22 delta: 21.1