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PANTONE PLUS FOR DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Overview of the PANTONE PLUS Digital Libraries The PANTONE PLUS SERIES is an enhancement of and replacement for the widely used PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM ® . It’s the next generation of the industry-standard color communication system for multimedia graphics. The PLUS SERIES adds 566 new solid colors to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM range: 224 new colors in our FORMULA GUIDE, SOLID Chips Book and COLOR BRIDGE ® (for a new total of 1,341); 42 new neons in our PASTELS & NEONS Guide and Chips Book; and a PREMIUM METALLICS Guide and Chips Book containing 300 new, durable metallic colors. The PANTONE PLUS SERIES CMYK Guide features 2,868 process-only colors. The PLUS SERIES also features new color tools, such as a ColorChecker ® Lighting Indicator that determines lighting conditions for proper color evaluation; a ColorChecker Primer for color correcting digital images; and powerful new COLOR MANAGER design software. In addition, colors in the guides and chips books are now arranged chromatically, for more intuitive color selection; a color locator index is provided for easy location of favorite colors. PANTONE PLUS for Designers: Why do I need to change my libraries? The PANTONE PLUS SERIES replaces the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM ® you are currently using. It is the next generation of the industry-standard color communication system for multimedia graphics and print applications and provides several new benefits to designers: • The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM formula guide included 1,114 colors; the PANTONE PLUS SERIES FORMULA GUIDE now includes 1,341 solid colors. • The PLUS SERIES features new versions of the COLOR BRIDGE, on coated and uncoated papers — 1,313 PANTONE Solid Colors published side-by-side with their 4-color process equivalents. It also includes sRGB and HTML values for all the solid colors. o We have eliminated the need to maintain separate Euro versions by using inks conforming to ISO standards and print process where applicable and by adhering to G7 when possible. • The PLUS SERIES adds 42 new neon colors to our PASTELS & NEONS Guide and Chips Book for a total of 56 neons and 154 pastels. • The PLUS SERIES includes a new PREMIUM METALLICS Guide and Chips Book with 300 new coatable metallic colors. • The PLUS SERIES includes a new CMYK Guide featuring 2,868 process-only colors. As with our COLOR BRIDGE, we have eliminated the need to maintain a separate Euro version of our CMYK Guide. We use inks conforming to ISO standards and print process where applicable and adhere to G7 when possible. • Guides and books in the PLUS SERIES are arranged chromatically, for more intuitive color selection. • The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM included color values measured when printed on cover stock. The PLUS SERIES is printed on a text-weight stock, a more common stock. The result is more accurate color depiction in the swatches for the average printed project. Further, the paper stock meets FSC certification from responsibly managed forests, helping to manage the planet as well as better manage color. • The PLUS SERIES introduces new color tools, such as a ColorChecker ® Lighting Indicator that determines proper lighting conditions for accurate color evaluation, a ColorChecker Primer for color correcting digital images, a color locator index and new design software. Switching from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM to the PANTONE PLUS SERIES affords designers a significantly expanded color palette, more accurate color matching from swatches to printed material, and powerful new digital tools. 2
PANTONE PLUS FOR DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Can’t I just leave it to my prepress provider to switch new library colors for the old ones? Designers should always take responsibility for the quality and color of their own work. Using older PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM color libraries and hoping that a prepress or press provider will exchange the colors could lead to unpredictable color output results. We advise all designers to themselves convert their PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colors to PANTONE PLUS SERIES Colors prior to sending documents to press. For a short time, as designers, printers and prepress providers transition from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM to the PANTONE PLUS SERIES, many of your providers may continue to maintain both sets of libraries. If you wish to take advantage of the greater color accuracy and expanded color selections inherent in the PLUS SERIES, install and use only the new PLUS SERIES digital libraries and inform your press and prepress providers that have you have updated to the PANTONE PLUS SERIES. Will I have to tell my print providers that I’ve employed PLUS Colors? The PANTONE PLUS SERIES digital color libraries have been provided to all of PANTONE’s RIP licensees, including EFI, GMG, CGS, Heidelberg, Agfa, Harlequin, Onyx Graphics and others. These manufacturers have already issued (or soon will issue) updates to their RIP software, including the new PLUS SERIES Colors. However, we do recommend that you communicate to your print provider that you have chosen your colors from the PANTONE PLUS SERIES libraries, in case your provider has not yet updated. How will I know if the PANTONE PLUS SERIES digital libraries are correctly installed? The next time you launch Illustrator ® , Photoshop ® , InDesign ® or QuarkXPress ® after installing the PLUS SERIES digital color libraries, you will find the new libraries available in the same places you were able to select the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM color libraries. For instance, in Adobe ® Illustrator you will see new “PANTONE+” designated libraries available from the Window > Swatch Libraries > Color Books menu command and in other places. See the section “Using the PANTONE PLUS Digital Libraries” for ways to verify the presence of, and how to use, PLUS SERIES digital libraries in other industry-standard creative professional applications. Will my document colors change after installing the new color libraries? No. Installing the PANTONE PLUS SERIES digital libraries will not alter existing colors used in your documents. Existing colors will remain unchanged, but should be manually replaced with new PLUS SERIES Colors. Note that Adobe Illustrator, where we have had to remove the older libraries and replace them with the new PLUS libraries, is an exception. The procedure for manually replacing colors is easy, but varies with each application; see the section “Using the PANTONE PLUS Digital Libraries” for step-by-step tutorials. Will my document colors change if I switch libraries? Merely installing the PLUS SERIES digital libraries will not alter existing document colors, which will continue to use colors from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM digital libraries. However we recommend manually replacing older PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colors with colors from the PLUS SERIES digital libraries. After color replacement you might notice minor color shifts in some swatches as a result of our updated color measurements. The new PLUS SERIES Colors are more accurately reproducible than PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colors. Will colors match across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and QuarkXPress? Yes. We have worked closely with Adobe and Quark to distribute identical PLUS SERIES digital color libraries in each of the application’s native formats. 3
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