289 Pantone?

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Based on what comes up on my monitor when I google PMS 289,
Bainb. 8183 - Darkest Blue seems to be a close match.

I don't have a PMS book and I had a job in here where I had to match a PMS color to paint a frame to match and had to spend quite a while calling around the area till I finally found a printing business who still had one and he let me borrow it. Half the people I called didn't even know what PMS was. :nuts:

Apparently only us old timers.
 
Thanks for that. I am always afraid to go by any color I see on my monitors because none are calibrated for perfect color matching.
 
I have long said that it would be a boon to this industry if the matboard companies
would also print the PMS number in their specifiers.

ie:

Pantone 294: Los Angeles Dodgers
Pantone 288: New York Mets
Pantone 288: Kansas City Royals
Pantone 294 & 186: Chicago Cubs
Pantone 342: Masters golf tournament

also printing that info on the back of the samples would help too.
 
Baer Charlton said:
I have long said that it would be a boon to this industry if the matboard companies
would also print the PMS number in their specifiers.

ie:

Pantone 294: Los Angeles Dodgers
Pantone 288: New York Mets
Pantone 288: Kansas City Royals
Pantone 294 & 186: Chicago Cubs
Pantone 342: Masters golf tournament

also printing that info on the back of the samples would help too.
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But then mat board would cost $ 28.96 a sheet becuase of the licensing fee. I exagerate, but just a bit. I used to be a Pantone graphic arts dealer and the cost of Pantone licensed products was quite high. To use the Pantone designation you would have to pay a very high licensing fee.-
 
Let me know if you need the chip, I have a book although they have a slight sheen, not flat like most matboard. Seems as if Artique has some very dark blues that might work too.
Susan
 
Also realize that if you have a Pantone Swatch Book and it is several years old it is no longer accurate. Ad agencies and printers generally replace their books yearly.

Coated stock (gloss) and uncoated (matte) are quite different in color saturation too.

Color matching is not an easy task unless staying within a coloring system like Pantone from start to finish.

It would be better for your client to supply a sample of what color they want to match and then eyeballing the sample against your mat board samples to come up to the closest match. In lieu of that, you might be able to have a printer use a Pantone printer's ink to print a board to match exactly prior to cutting the mat. I don't know if the Pantone papers are still made, but do not use them to mount on a mat board because they too will fade relatively quickly as they are made for mock up use only.
 
Really, they get new books every year? My Crescent and Bainbridge specifiers are pushing 10 years old :)

Have you or anyone here contacted an ad agency or printer to see about getting their old books? Might be a very handy resource.
 
So charge me $10 and send me a new book. Heck I'll throw in an extra $15 if they send me one that has actual samples and not printouts of what the mat might look like.....
 
Framar said:
Our specifiers are free ...
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Free to us, but somebody pays for them.

Yes, the Pantone Specifiers are not inexpensive.
 
One thing I have done with great results has been to print a patch of the color using photoshop and my epson 9900 printer.
 
Bob Doyle said:
So charge me $10 and send me a new book. Heck I'll throw in an extra $15 if they send me one that has actual samples and not printouts of what the mat might look like.....
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I went through and pulled all the new Bainbridge deletions this morning. That printed-"chip" specifier took a normally tedious job and made it actually annoying.
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick
 
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