Rotary International - Mat colors

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tedh

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I'm framing a Rotary certificate, and their web site doesn't list matboard numbers, but does list Pantone colors. So how do I match these?

The link to their colors is here: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/547en.pdf

The Pantone blue is 286, and gold is 123 C. Does Bainbridge have a link? I'm a foreigner to Pantone.

Thanks in advance.
 
tedh said:
I'm framing a Rotary certificate, and their web site doesn't list matboard numbers, but does list Pantone colors. So how do I match these?

The link to their colors is here: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/547en.pdf

The Pantone blue is 286, and gold is 123 C. Does Bainbridge have a link? I'm a foreigner to Pantone.

Thanks in advance.
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It might be a good idea to strike up a friendship with a local print shop. I have one right in my building. When questions like this come up I head on over with my matboard specifiers, borrow their Pantone guide, and look for the closest match.
 
jim_p said:
It might be a good idea to strike up a friendship with a local print shop. I have one right in my building. When questions like this come up I head on over with my matboard specifiers, borrow their Pantone guide, and look for the closest match.
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Booyaaaaa! Never thought of that. There's one across the hall from me. Great idea.

Thanks, Jim
 
You might offer to give a frame for their work mans comp certain. Those Pantone color selectors are very expensive. What your asking is similar to having them ask you to cut a center out of a mat he brings over to you. You are using him.
 
GUMBY said:
You might offer to give a frame for their work mans comp certain. Those Pantone color selectors are very expensive. What your asking is similar to having them ask you to cut a center out of a mat he brings over to you. You are using him.
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Our two businesses are linked: we send them massive volumes of printing, and they send us massive volumes of stretching, mounting and framiing. They want to buy me out, and I want to buy them out.

Of course they have no idea of what framing is all about, and I have no idea what their biz is all about.
 
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