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Let’s not forget the hundreds of dollars we’re going to have to spend on the “Goe Guides” for each of our presses.

Just how many colors do designers need? This is just a gimmic for Pantone to make more money.

The download for CS3 works well, it installs coated and uncoated libraries for InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Geo will still need the spot to process guide (now called color bridge) and the 4 color process guides in coated, uncoated and matte cant go away. Converting spot to process does not always generate the best results, I have picked different color mixes than what the color bridge or the application suggests. Plus, coated and uncoated stocks often require different color mixes for consistent color.

Do they expect people to print in RGB? And is the ultimate goal to rule out CMYK printing to get a better work flow between screen and print? Thanks in advance.

“Pantone supports the precepts of color managed workflows. As such, any application that supports ICC profiles would be able to translate our color data into a properly defined ICC space (either color or device space) for further use. One caveat… the transforms used in ICC profiling are not necessarily the “best” results that are obtainable in print. Rather, the transforms make a number of assumptions in the creation of CMYK data that should be validated before trusting the output for final CMYK printing. As an example, our research into the area of gamut mapping and our extensive licensing of digital print devices and creation of hundreds of device specific look up tables (LUT’s) has shown us that a direct mapping of ICC profiles to a basic CMYK space typically needs 3 to 7 iterations or additional adjustments to achieve Pantone’s quality level of results. Generic SWOP profiles do not necessarily achieve this result in and of themselves. In addition, the mapping of spot colors into the CMYK space early in the production cycle presents other potential drawbacks to achieving the highest possible quality of PANTONE Colors. When PANTONE Colors are converted to CMYK they may lose their named color identity. As such, any further downstream processing that understands PANTONE Colors (e.g. Artworks / PitStop or EFI RIP’s) would not be able to apply a tuned look up table (LUT) to achieve better results. Rather, the entire page would be treated as one generic CMYK image. This would mean that any changes by the pre-press or press operators to do global color changes (e.g. bump up the magenta) would move ALL the colors – including Pantone’s. Pantone highly recommends that applications retain spot colors in their output formats and we support a “late binding” approach to CMYK generation where the final separations and transforms into CMYK space happen as late in the process as possible and with known device specific print conditions rather than “generic” transforms into a middle-of-the-road CMYK space.”