JD™ Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Hey all. Going to be giving my office a little bit of a spruce up, because it currently has that woodchip wallpaper off of the 70s and a nice flowery border going on. f**king awful. Anyway, I figured I might as well go all out an make one of the walls that specific orange of mine. My question is whether anyone knows where I can order paints to RGB, Hex or Patone codes online? Before anyone talks about colours showing different from screen to print, calibration etc etc. I know the colour is right because it's been viewed on calibrated monitors as well as in various print mediums Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 You said you've got printed media, you should be able to take that in and have them match it off that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted September 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 You said you've got printed media, you should be able to take that in and have them match it off that. Aye, but for some reason I trust that less than the machine working off a code. Completely irrational, so just wondered whether anyone knew if this way was possible anywhere - I'm sure it will be. If not then obviously I'll go the match way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 (edited) You said you've got printed media, you should be able to take that in and have them match it off that. Woah, woah, woah woah with the f**king media! Not a good idea. When we did's your logo JD we used the specific RGB/CMYK profiles. If you take a printed sheet to match to: 1. Matches tend to be shit 2. It'll be your printers interpretation of that colour breakdown, which is affected by the weight, texture and colour of the stock it's been printed on (t'aint no such thing as white paper) so it's all a bit vague - and by no means accurate. Y'all can get Pantone paint if you want to be super anal about it. I know i would! Edited September 30, 2011 by Matthew62 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted September 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Woah, woah, woah woah with the f**king media! Not a good idea. When we did's your logo JD we used the specific RGB/CMYK profiles. If you take a printed sheet to match to: 1. Matches tend to be shit 2. It'll be your printers interpretation of that colour breakdown, which is affected by the weight, texture and colour of the stock it's been printed on (t'aint no such thing as white paper) so it's all a bit vague - and by no means accurate. Y'all can get Pantone paint if you want to be super anal about it. I know i would! I meant printed media as in leaflets and business cards and such, which are calibrated by the printers to match - right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Fraid not. Unless your printer has got a spectroproofer attached (i'm guess not as they only come on large format printers costing a fair few grand) then colour is never guaranteed. Your printer will just print the values as set by the artwork, as in it'll print a percentage of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black but there's so much up for interpretation. What paper you've used will change the colour, how warm the inks are will change the colour. What season you're in...seriously colour can change dramatically based purely on weather. It'll all be fairly close, but none of it could be certified as being exact without the spectroproofer. There are various printer profiles which act to compensate the colours dependent on the stock you're using, but then you need to set it up for the specific papers you always use. Then there's the fact that many RGB colours can't be replicated by CMYK printing due to the available gamut which is possible through traditional printer. Then there's the fact that RGB/on-screen is backlit and the colours are built up to create white, whereas with ink CMYK builds up to produce black so it's very difficult creating consistency. That's where Pantone inks come in as they're set, but they are always expensive and even they are susceptible to change due to the original reasonings i mentioned. Basically, to cut a long story short - it's all bollocks. If you're happy then that's all that matters, as with our shit eyes most of us never really notice the tiny differences anyway. Also, don't get me started on calibrated monitors as that's all bullshit as well. Without going in to it basically..you change your lightbulb...then it's all irrelevant and incorrect so it's not really something to rely on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted September 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 f**k it, I'm just gonna paint it black. Or, more likely a shade of grey right? The printers I use are a division of a nationwide printer who do all the printing for the mags I worked at, so I kinda trust them to have decent kit. Then again, with so many variables it's hardly worth even bothering and just buying any old orange that looks close enough. That's settled that then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Nah black is one of the easy one's actually. Oh i didn't realise you we're using big scale printers. In that case, then yeah they probably will be able to certify colours, but as you say an orange you're happy with is more than fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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