Peter Figen Online Upload & Sell: On
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We've been using Pantone colors for decades now. Most often when I've come across the use is when I'm working on brochures or posters for established companies, say, Honeywell, where their logo is spec'd in a specific Pantone color. That generally means that when you're printing, instead of the four standard ink colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, you're added a fifth color plate to the press that only prints that single Pantone color. Things like cereal boxes are often printed with a series of Pantone color inks that are used to hit very specific colors on press and colors that the standard printing inks cannot reproduce.
Print shops will have stocks of Pantone offset lithography ink on hand to accommodate printing files that spec those colors. And there are several types of Pantone specs as well, such as for coated paper or uncoated paper.
Where this comes into play for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator users is when you need to convert someone's Pantone spec'd color to sRGB for their website use or use the nearest CMYK equivalent for offset printing where they are not going to spring for the money for additional color plates on press.
Sounds like a real good reason to not get rid of your older versions of the software but it also seems like there are some pretty simple workarounds. I'm not sure that these two guys are the best source for understanding this development because it sounds like they've never actually used or spec'd the use of Pantone colors in their hip commentary roles.
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