Product Description: Whether ultimately printing on coated or uncoated stock, you can now match Pantone Matching System Colors in process and RGB with the new value - priced Pantone Color Bridge Set. These invaluable multi - use color reference tools help you to: select and specify solid Pantone Colors on coated and uncoated papers; visualize how Pantone Colors will appear when reproduced in CMYK; create optimal display of Pantone Colors on monitors and Web pages; To facilitate use of the modified coated and all - new uncoated CMYK screen tint percentages.
worth every penny I am a graphic designer and should have purchased this bridge book a long time ago. Colors on different computer monitors can vary tremendously and this alleviates a lot of guesswork. It is also much easier to show clients the difference between spot and Pantone colors instead of just explaining it.
Bridge Set was 2005 Edition and Colors not true As a graphic designer, I've been using the Pantone PMS Matching system for over 15 years, and was excited to get the Pantone Color Bridge set. However, it was a 2005 edition, and the colors were no longer all "true," especially the CMYK mixes. I had a print job almost ruined because I used the CMYK mix on the bridge set. Upon seeing a printed proof of my job, I double-checked the ink setup on another CMYK chart, and realized the Bridge color was very wrong. I returned the set the next day, as this could have been a very costly mistake. On a positive note, Amazon made the return very easy.
Perfect For Your Clients This a great set, that would should be on every designer's desk.
I've used this set to help my clients choose and match colors they want used for their designs, which allows me to provide a digital file to them with both the CMYK and PMS colors called out. Many times a client wants to be able to take their design to a local digital print shop, so it's nice to be able to show the client exactly what they can expect from the output and to know that there won't be any surprises when they get the piece back.
There are two sets of matching swatches: PMS solids on the left and the matching CMYK on the right. The solids provide the PMS number, the RGB values, and the HTML hexadecimal value. The CMYK matching colors provide the PMS number and the CMYK values.
This is an invaluable tool and one that we can use to help educate our clients.
Pantone Color Bridge Set Without this, graphics professionals would be clueless as to how their spot colors would transfer to CMYK. This small investment will yield BIG BENEFITS: Select your spot colors based on how they will convert to CMYK Never have a client call with the bad news that their corporate spot color printed wrong in a CMYK magazine. If you don't have this tool, stay out of the color design/production field.
Perfect for Digital Printers I am a part time Graphic Designer, and full time Pre-press worker for a 4-Color digital print shop. This book is perfect for that.
Many people bring their print jobs in to us and say "I need Pantone 320 for the logo" and we have to explain over and over again that many Pantone colors are impossible to create using on the CMYK color gamut. They always look at us like we are crazy.
Now we can just show them the color swatch and how much different it will look when printed in CMYK. Then we can work on finding the closest equivalent color.
It's more expensive than other books because it has double the number of color chips in it. But if you plan on printing with any 4 Color Digital, or Press printers it's a must have.
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