Mystery PMS Color

[juan45215]

I'm trying to replace a sign for a customer. His records show that the original color was PMS 1802. It's not in my color chart. I called my supplier and they don't have. They called the paint manufactuer and they don't have it.

How can this be?

 

[bayshorecreations]

If you search it here http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx
There are no results so I would guess that the customer is wrong.
Is it a red? Maybe its Pantone 182?

 

[Fred Weiss]

Sounds to me like it's PMS 180-2 which, according to Adobe Illustrator, has the following CMYK values:

C = 74.51
M = 79.22
Y = 0
K = 0

 

[Gene@mpls]

Fred- I ran 180-2c in the pantone search from bayshorecreations and I get
cannot find number entered with this:

# PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM ®: Numbered colors consist of three or four digits followed by a substrate extension of either a C, an M or a U. The substrate letter must be entered.

Examples: 185 C; 2583 M; 4725 U

I also had a hyphenated pms color a while ago and could not find it. Does
AI have their own PMS system or something? Gene

 

[Fred Weiss]

Fred- I ran 180-2c in the pantone search from bayshorecreations and I get
cannot find number entered with this:

# PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM ®: Numbered colors consist of three or four digits followed by a substrate extension of either a C, an M or a U. The substrate letter must be entered.

Examples: 185 C; 2583 M; 4725 U

I also had a hyphenated pms color a while ago and could not find it. Does
AI have their own PMS system or something? Gene

Adobe Illustrator has 10 different Pantone swatch tables. 180-2 ... more accurately Pantone DS 180-2 C, appears on the Pantone Process Coated table as well as the Pantone process Uncoated table as Pantone 180-2 U. You're likely looking at the Pantone Solid Coated or Uncoated tables on which the 180 series is an orange color and there is no 180-2 at all. There is 180 C and then it goes to 1805 C.

I have no explanation as to why the Solid table is completely non-synchronized with the Process table but I do find it cheaper and more efficient to use AI to lookup PMS colors than with several different Pantone books.