Ok. Let me first preface this by saying I don't do any digital printing here at my shop. I outsource it all. However, I do all the designing which means I have to colormatch colors and output them as cymk in the files, without having a printer here to try it out on. Is there an easier way to match calendered vinyl colors than trial and error?? like a chart? For instance, Oracal 651 Orange is c...m...y...k... Right now, I'm trying to match Oracal 951M (metallic) 926 Pyrite. I do the cut vinyl in house, but they have digital stickers to match. Without having a printer right here, I can't afford to much trial and error. I have a cmyk color chart, but the blocks of color are soo small it's hard to see. HELP!!!
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Trying to color match a metallic
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Sign Eagle
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In order to match a metalic vinyl, you will need to find someone with a printer that prints silver, such as a Roland.
Smacka
New Member
Download Colorschemer, It will help with just about any color values you need. Also I use X-Ref app for my iphone. I literally put my sample color swatches on my phone screen and scroll the pantone color values until I match it up, then I just plug in the numbers. Sounds kind of a weird but it works pretty good. Especially when you are offsite with a customer and you need a quick reference.
artbot
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not sure about the nature of your mathing issue. keep in mind a few things. if your monitor is well balanced, in photoshop you can create a gradient of white to a dark gray. then lay the color over that layer and put the color you are matching set to "multiply". this will give you a good idea of how this color will look at different angles and refractions. for that matter, you can download a photo of chrome, brushed aluminum, etc and do the same.
also with metallics you will get more metamerism than usual. a gold/taupe might have a green shadow from an angle. this is because the light is bouncing off the cyan pigment dots and the yellow is absorbing.
also with metallics you will get more metamerism than usual. a gold/taupe might have a green shadow from an angle. this is because the light is bouncing off the cyan pigment dots and the yellow is absorbing.
Custom_Grafx
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Pantone metallics chart.
heyskull
New Member
Choose some similair colours, print a large enough block, get customer to choose one.
Simples.......
I reckon it's pointless trying to match a flat colour to a metalic as even viewing from a slighly different can change the colour.
In this case let the customer decide, just don't print too many different variations or you will never get them to decide.
SC
Simples.......
I reckon it's pointless trying to match a flat colour to a metalic as even viewing from a slighly different can change the colour.
In this case let the customer decide, just don't print too many different variations or you will never get them to decide.
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Jackpine
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+1! I've done this and you would be surprised how good they look. You won't be able to hit all the colors with a 4 color printer.