Adobe LAB (#@$#@$) Colours

Hi
Has anyone found a practical way to get around the LAB to CMYK completely useless values? Also we use Kodak Preps 6.2.1 for impositions and it doesn't handle LAB colours, they just vanish?

Thanks for that, new to this, but if I need to list the software to which this is relevant, not sure the answer is in sight, we are commercial printer, so indesign, illustrator and Photoshop are our main suspects. Client picks colour from PANTONE color bridge coated as example and wants reflex blue but the job is in CMYK, lab color conversion is C100 M86.11 Y27.48 K8.94, this is far removed from the book color C100 M82 Y0 K2, so there is my question, is there a way get the LAB to convert correctly to match the book CMYK? Biggest issue is when using spot color logos/drawings which a client wants printed CMYK, is getting the values correct without having to go through their entire history of work and re enter the CMYK values for the spot colors manually? This will be a monumentus task? As for system??? Mac not that is should make a difference, and if it helps color profiled to FOGRAG39. Hope thats a bit more specific?

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