PANTONE problem consulting by Matthias Betz / 15 minutes

Do you have a PANTONE problem but no expert to discuss it with and who can help you?
Then you need our PANTONE problem consultation service provided by our owner Matthias Betz and the Proof.de team.

Your contact person:
Matthias Betz
Telephone: +49-(0)7071-7952740
Email: info@proof.de

Simply give us a call or send us an email. We will then discuss your requirements together. Billing is based on 15-minute increments for telephone, email and personal support, at an hourly rate of EUR 110 plus VAT. For more complex issues, we will be happy to provide you with a quote in advance and work with you to determine whether and how we can achieve your goal. Feel free to contact us at any time. We are competent, experienced, fair and reliable.

We can support you in many areas and help you solve problems. Typical areas of consulting include:

Questions about PANTONE and support with problems involving spot colours in printing and pre-press

• Which PANTONE colour corresponds to my sRGB or CMYK colour, and which AdobeRGB value corresponds to my PANTONE C or U colour?
• How accurately can my PANTONE colour be reproduced in a digital proof?
• Which CMYK value is the best in PSOCoatedV3 or any other CMYK colourspace for a specific PANTONE colour?
• Should I use different CMYK values for PANTONE conversion for coated and uncoated paper?
• My PANTONE colour looks very different in the proof or print than in the PANTONE colour fan. What could be the reason for this?
• I would like to compare different PANTONE colours and CMYK equivalents on a single sheet. What should I bear in mind?
• I only have an old colour chart and don't have the latest PANTONE colour fandeck or PANTONE Digital Master Library to hand. Is there perhaps a more suitable colour that I don't have in my chart?
• What exactly is the current formula for my PANTONE colour?
• Is it better to use a PANTONE colour for printing, or can I achieve a cheaper but identical or at least similar result with a CMYK variant?

Over the years, we have also addressed many of our customers' questions in articles on our knowledge blog on the subject of PANTONE. You can find the most important articles on this topic on the PANTONE overview page: https://proofing.de/?s=PANTONE

Printing and proofing advice

• Which proof profile is best suited to my requirements?
• Have you received a PDF file but are unsure whether it is print-ready?
• Do you require a customised proof profile for recycled paper or newspaper printing on bright white paper?
• Has a print job gone wrong and you need someone who can provide expert support in troubleshooting pre-press issues?
• Do you need someone to help you with complaints, to formulate a competent letter to the printer or your service provider?

Colour management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

• Which colour settings should I use in Adobe products?
• How should I create my data in InDesign, and how should I export it?
• Which greyscale profile should I use when working in Photoshop if I want to create a black-and-white photo book?
• Which rendering intent is best suited for converting RGB images for uncoated paper?

PDF creation and conversion

• What settings should I use in Adobe InDesign when creating print-ready PDFs?
• I have a PDF in ISOCoatedV2, but should I now print it on uncoated paper? Can I convert the colours?
• Have you received a PDF file but are unsure whether it is print-ready?
• Which colours and colour spaces are actually contained in the PDF file supplied by the agency?

Colour conversion

• Would you like to easily convert a PDF file from coated to uncoated?
• You exported a PDF from Microsoft Office, but now the black text is suddenly in all CMYK colour channels.
• My printer won't accept my PDF file because the ink coverage (TAC) is too high.
• What is a DeviceLink, and when is DeviceLink colour conversion suitable for me?

Colour measurement

• I require a spectral colour measurement of a specific colour area.
• I have 10 slightly different colour samples and need a mean value in CIELAB.
• For quality management purposes, I require colour measurement with a spherical head and SCI/SCE.

Softproof

• Would you like to display a file on your monitor with colour accuracy?
• Would you like a standard light lamp to match colour samples with D50 directly on a hardware-calibratable monitor?
• Would you also like to display spot colours or gold foils and special papers on your monitor with colour accuracy?
• You would like to use a soft proofing solution such as Spectraproof in your company.

High-precision colour samples

• You need to print a specific colour shade 100 times on matt uncoated paper as a sample.
• You want to send your corporate design colours to all customers in a booklet so that they have a physical sample of your brand colours.
• You require a reference for a very specific LAB value that is as accurate as possible.

Paper and optical brighteners

• How many optical brighteners does my cover paper contain?
• Is a standard proof profile suitable for my production paper in terms of paper white?
• Can I adjust a proof profile to match the paper white I use?
• What is the LAB or sRGB value of the paper I am using?