THE PANTONE COLOR MATCHING SYSTEM

THE PANTONE COLOR MATCHING SYSTEM

Pantone colors are those already formed, such as paints in jars that you find at the hardware store or nail varnishes. The use of the Pantone color can be added to the basic colors of the four-color, in this case, the selections will be of course more than four or cyan, magenta, yellow, black and Pantone color that can be for example gold or silver. So, to print a special color in addition to the four basic colors is inevitable to use a slab in more, and then a printing unit more. It is an operation that is set in the prepress dividing the document in the number of channels suitable for printing. The particular processes of this type drives up the cost of printing as needing an increased use of matrices, and the inks of time. The Pantone colors have a scale in which each color is identified by a specific code.

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