Custom PMS ink swatch

My client uses a custom PMS ink mix. How can I make a spot color swatch in Illustrator that shows the color and client name?

Double click a swatch in the Swatches panel. Change its name. For Color Type choose Spot Color. For color mode choose a method that will be used for displaying the color on screen and when converted to Process color.

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    The new separations palette in Illustrator CS4 is a strong move in the right direction for designers and print production, but having the ability to add a Multi-Ink to your swatches like you can in InDesign would be even better. As a printing company, we often do double hits of spot inks and CMYK mixes under spot inks for special effects. These are very easy to do using Mixed Inks in InDesign, but in Illustrator we have to duplicate objects and set them to overprint each other.
    Also, an Ink Manager similar to InDesign would be great too.

    I agree! It will also minimize the errors especially that there's a tendency to forget setting the overprint in the spot color.
    There are lot of medical/scientific Journals that requires a lot of mixed ink swatches not only in the layout but also in individual artworks.
    It opens the possibilities for creativity combining appearance palette, mixed ink swatches, and graphic styles.
    I also noticed that novice users of Illustrators have apprehensions using the appearance palette. They'd rather duplicate the object and apply overprint which results to error-prone files.
    Since this feature is already available in InDesign, I hope there should be little compatibility issue when linking the artwork in the layout even in lower versions of InDesign.
    I hope that the Illustrator development team consider this small request...

  • How do I update my PMS color swatches within Adobe CC 2014 to the latest PMS colors?

    I have the latest version of CC, and the PMS color swatches I'm trying to see on my computer are not there (They are in the printed version of the PMS Color Bridge book). There's a lot missing. For example PMS 2002 C.

    According to what I see at this Google search link, I think you need to obtain what you want from Pantone

  • How do I replace 2 pantone colors with 2 new pantone colors globally? I have a 2 PMS logo with many tint variations in it . When I replace PMS in Swatches pallette. The logo does not globally replace the selected color. es

    I have a 2-PMS color logo with many tints in it of the 2 colors. When I replace the  swatches in the logo to new colors, they convert from Book Color to CMYK. Can the printer work with that? How can I kee it a 2-color separation?
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    This is what I understand. You have a logo in a document that uses PMS 'A' and PMS 'B' colors and you want to change to colors PMS 'C' and PMS 'D'. If this is correct there are different ways to do this, but here is a traditional way:
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    Get the two PMS (C and D) in the document's Swatches Panel.
    Select PMS 'A' and bring the 'Fill' box in focus.
    From the Select menu choose Same > Fill Color.
    Click on PMS 'C' in Swatches panel to replace all PMS 'A' fills with PMS 'C'.
    Deselect all.
    Again select PMS 'A' and this time bring 'Stroke' box in focus.
    From the Select menu choose Same > Stroke Color.
    Click on PMS 'C' in Swatches panel to replace all PMS 'A' strokes with PMS 'C'.
    Deselect all.
    Similarly using the same approach replace PMS 'B' wit PMS 'D'.
    If you have CS3 / CS4 and the PMS colors in the logo are easily identifiable, you can use Live Color to change the colors pretty easily.
    Hope this helps!
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    New Note: If there are gradients / blends that use these PMS colors the above approach would not work, but Live Color can.

  • Figuring out the PMS colors

    I have a logo that I would like to have made into a sticker by a printing company and they are offering either to print it with their 36 stock ink colors at no additional charge or with custom PMS ink matching for $30.00 per color.
    1. How do you determine if the colors being used will work with the 36 colors they have available? Is there a way to do this?
    2. How do I figure out what the PMS colors are for the ones in my logo?
    Thanks!

    1.) Most of the "sticker" print vendors will have their inhouse spot color ( like the 36 you mentioned ). But, your standard logo has only 2-3 colors ( i.e., FedEx, UPS, Xerox, IBM, etc., etc. ). If however, your logo uses more than 3 and they are process color builds, then color matching may depend on their ability to match a specific Pantone Spot color ( which they are charging $30. for a custom ink mix ). If your logo is constructed using 4c process inks, they may be better off printing your logo using 4 process colors ( C-M-Y-K ).
    They should have a color chart that shows the 36 colors available for no charge. You should print your logo and try to visually match your color to their color. For instance, to simplify it, lets say your logo consists of two colors similar to a MasterCard logo of Red + Orange. Just a hypothetical. You could go to your local printer and have a hard copy proof printed and then it's just a matter of matching your Red to one of their Reds, your Orange to one of their Oranges. If you can't access their 36 colors, it will make this process much harder and/or they may not have a Red or Orange that is close to your Red and Orange. Then, they will have to use a custom mix ( $$$ ).
    2.) You could find the pantone Spot color match from your local printer. Some of them have special lightboxes where they can visually match your Red + Orange to specific Pantone Spot color swatch book. You should be there to help find the color you think matches the closest. You could also contact the originator of your logo file and see if they have the colors. There is a way to find the Spot color using Photoshop if you have it available.

  • Custom swatches. Where do I put them?

    I recently downloaded some custom paper swatches from Neenah Paper to use with a letterhead design I'm creating. Where is the best place to save custom paper swatches on my Mac? Is there a common folder I can put them in that will allow me to share the custom swatches amongst all of my Adobe apps?
    Thanks!

    The Neenah downloads are .ase files so you have to load them into the app's swatches panel. In ID if you load them without any docs open they will  be in the panel for every new document.
    The swatches Neenah is providing are spot color ink swatches defined as CMYK, so I don't really see how they would be useful for simulating a paper. In InDesign there's only one Paper swatch [Paper] so if you want to try and simulate ink on a colored paper, edit the [Paper] swatch and turn on Overprint while you work.

  • Please guide me how PMS Colors can be done in DUOTONE?

    Hello,
    Good Day
    I have job having 7 Colors and I have been asked to done it in 5 Colors.
    (1) Pantone 485CVC (RED)
    (2) Pantone 356CVC (GREEN)
    (3) Pantone 116CVC (YELLOW)
    (4) Pantone 301CV (D-BLUE)
    (5) Pantone 279C (L-BLUE)
    (6) Pantone 732C (D-BROWN)
    (7) Pantone 730C (L-BROWN)
    I can use Red, Green and Yellow on separate screens where as remaining
    “FOUR COLORS” are Dark Blue, Light Blue, Dark Brown and Light Brown.
    Please guide me how I can finish the job in five colors as my boss advised
    me to do it in duotone. The job is on Illustrator CS2 and Colors are PMS.
    Please guide me how PMS Colors can be done in DUOTONE.
    I have been working in filled of screen print for many years but unaware
    about duotone in Illustrator.
    I would sincerely grateful for your reply and Guidance.
    With Best Regards
    Ahmed Ali
    [email protected]

    Since this is (evidently) being prepared for screen printing, your options will be affected by answers to these questions:
    Are halftone dots going to be allowed? Screen printing setups (especially in common T-shirt shops) often require solids only.
    If the screen printing setup can accommodate halftoning, at what halftone ruling? When a particular screen printing setup is limited to very course (ugly) halftone ruling--commonly 30 lpi or less--one often opts for textures or grain to achieve the effect of shading.
    Are the inks going to be opaque? Opaque inks are most common, but limit the possible results when overlapped. Translucent inks are only suitable for white or very light substrate colors. If the screen setup is sophisticated enough to support decent halftone ruling, and will be printed on a white substrate, then the colors you have listed could be accomplished simply building the file as ordinary four-color process, instead of with 5 colors. (None of the colors you've listed—red, green, yellow, two blues, two browns—suggest requiring a 5th spot ink.)
    Illustrator does not support multi-ink swatches. You can use multiple fills and/or strokes set to overprint to replicate it in output. But Illustrator cannot properly display overprinting of opaque inks in its interface. Overprint preview always assumes the translucent inks of offset printing.
    All the above is why it is common to build screen printing projects in Photoshop as multichannel documents, saved as DCS 2 EPS, or printed to Adobe PDF as separations. It's more intuitive because you have a Channel (not to be confused with Layers) for each ink, and the program is able to properly preview the printed results because you can simulate opacity, including the color of the substrate.
    Working this way, it is common to create vector objects in Illustrator and then paste them into the appropriate Channel in Photoshop.
    ...my boss advised me to do it in duotone...
    I suspect your boss doesn't know what a duotone is. Duotone (and tritone, quadtone) print multiple separations of the same grayscale channel. Duotone in Photoshop is the modern analog of the process darkroom technique of making two separation plates from the same image, using different screen angles and exposures. In Photoshop, you can do this for up to four inks, optionally applying different grayscale curves to each ink, not different channels (different artwork) to each ink. Traditionally, this was done to impart a bit of "color interest" to black-and-white photos being printed in a 2-ink job.
    Your boss is saying "duotone," but he's thinking of the functionality of a multichannel file using spot inks. Even Photoshop's quadtone would not give you five inks.
    JET

  • Know any reason why color swatch coverts to black when I copy and paste into another document?

    I keep having issues when I copy and paste a table from one document to the next. Some of the PMS ink colors convert to black. Anyone have a clue?

    In colors in the table or elsewhere in the file? Are you using table or cell styles? If so, did you define new ones or redifine the defualts? The general principle to remember when moving content from file to file is that anything like styles or swatches that appear with the same name in both documents will use the definition from the receiving file.
    Anothe possibility, though less likely, is that you've used the ink manager to alias the spot color to black.

  • Photoshop CS4 (64bit) - custom CMYK

    Hi all,
    working in the UK and I want to know if its possible to add the ISO Coated v2 to the photoshop "custom cmyk" > ink colours dialogue? I want to control the total ink limit, etc. or indeed does anyone know the specs for that standard? i know it has a ink limit of 330 or 300 (depending on the version used) but what about dot gain, black generation, UCA, etc?
    I've googled it on and off for a few days, but didn't find info as needed above.
    thanks in advance!

    "It's dangerous to leave in a feature like that without some kind of warning telling the user that a custom CMYK setting has no relation to any of the other included profiles. "
    Even from the very beginning of ICC support in Ps 5, it was made clear when you read about it that Custom CMYK and the ICC dialog boxes had no relationship with each other. Unfortunately too many people thought they were connected and suggested that you could actually edit ICC profiles there. That caused a lot of confusion and some of that early misinformation persists today.
    It's not you can't get pretty good results from Custom CMYK for some printing scenarios, because you can. It's more that it has become less and less relevant as the ink definitions are from an era predating direct to plate, and there apparently there were a few half fixes to get it where it has been since it's last revision.
    Adding editing capabilities to Ps would probably solve the problems that force some to still use Custom CMYK for some purposes. As Rydog23 points out, there are still legitimate uses for this tool no matter how obsolete it may be. There are other uses too if you don't happen to have access to Profilemaker or PrintOpen or something similar.

  • Pantone Ink Solidity

    I need to mix a spot color with a grayscale image.
    Photoshop let's me choose the solidity of the spot channel, which is if i understood well, only for previewing the image, and doesn't affect the printing itself.
    So... what's are the "correct" solidity percentages for pantone solid colors?
    Documentation and forums bring me no further than: 0% for varnish, 100% for metallic inks. But how opaque are pantone solid colors? (I guess they are more opaque than process colors?).
    PMS 032C is the color in fact.
    It's a big difference between 0 and 100%, so what would be a reasonable percentage to have a (somewhat) correct simulation of the ink mixing?

    I consulted my printer, he told me something similar: the darker the ink, the less transparent it is.
    Meanwhile i did print something with pms 032 c (bright red), and 0% solidity gives me the most realistic preview on screen, compared with the printed result.
    For dark pms colors, i shouldn't set the solidity much higher than maybe 20%, as pms inks seem to be very un-opaque (uh what's to oposite of opaque?). Bright pms inks in offset printing should be set to 0% solidity. Hope that helps.

  • Change swatch color inside swatch dialog box

    In other words, say you have a PMS 485 swatch loaded in your palette and you want to change that swatch to PMS 286, it would be nice if you could double click on the 485 swatch and change the color from a drop-down menu, etc.

    I've always done this with a Pantone colour guide at hand.
    So if you've got a swatch of Pantone 485 (CMYK=0.97.100.0), just double-click on the swatch to get the CMYK reading Alter the name to Pantone 286 and alter the CMYK values to 100.66.0.2. Then everything that was red 485 will change to blue 286.
    It's best not to import a new swatch of 286 while you have 485 running - if you do you will have to use Select Same Fill and Select Same Stroke and alter the colours from one swatch to the other with the accompanying danger of missing something.

  • My Pantone Color Swatch Library is Missing from Illustrator

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    This isn't really about color management. To reach the largest group
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  • Clear Dry Ink

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    Sorry this is messy...I copied it from a brochure....
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    It looks like the Xerox 800/1000 is a CMYK printer with and extra toner channel and that channel has to be named Clear (case sensitive). The directions you posted for setting up a Clear spot channel are confusing because there are unnecessary  steps and the reference to process magenta  could throw you off.
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    All that matters here is the name "Clear". The Color can be anything and doesn't need to be a process color as the directions imply
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    I like to delete all the swatches in my Swatches Pallet so I'm left with no swatches (starting clean). This way when I create artwork using PMS colors (swatches), I can add them later and then in the Swatches Pallet I'll have only the PMS colors and CMYK colors that are used in the document.
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    I want the PMS colors to be added as spot PMS colors, not cmyk process...
    Illustrator CS 5 (15.0.2) using MBP v10.6.8.
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    Thanks Monika,
    I think that up until recently I used to do the "select unused" and never really noticed that I switched to cleaning after I originally cleaned out the pallet and after I added PMS swatches, and then all of a sudden realizing my problem. Thanks, I thought it was a bug or something I had modified, but now know for certain.
    Thanks.

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