Hi all!
Looking to buy a new A4 laser printer but can't decide what to get. I'll be printing vector graphics and want the biggest possible color gamut.
I see some printers are Pantone approved. Can I pick a pms color from the Corel pallette and get a matching pms color printed? What do I need to make that happen?
/Niklas
Well you can, sort of.
Pantone colors are what is referred to as "spot colors" and a laser printer is going to try and produce an equivalent spot color by mixing CYMK toner. There are some Pantone colors that just can't be simulated using CYMK. In other words they're out of gamut. Green and orange are a couple of colors that most any color laser are going to have trouble with - Pantone approved or not.
That being said, a Pantone approved color laser should give you acceptable results for basic proofing purposes. It really depends on how fussy your clients are.
Dan
Thank you,
I understand that many pms colors are not possible to reproduce on a cmyk device. My biggest concern is the workflow. Are the printdrivers set up to recognize named spot colors (like a RIP for a large format inkjet)? I dont want to look up every CMYK-value for every specific pms I want to use. Just use the pantone palette in Corel. Just choose for example Panton 300, and Pantone 300 comes out the printer.
What brand of printer would be recommended?
Niklas
Niklas,
I know with the Xerox Phase line of printers they will provide a CorelDraw Pantone palette that is optimized for their printer. That's the palette I use in CorelDraw for anything I'm sending to the Phaser. If you "hover" the mouse pointer over a particular colour on the palette a "pop-up" will indicate the named/numbered Pantone colour.
The real expert on all this is David Milisock but I haven't seem him on this forum for a day or two.