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samf58498923
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‎Mar 01, 2017
02:12 AM
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Sorry to restart this thread again but you were so helpful, hope you don't mind answering one more question. I've been using the colour library feature in Illustrator and Photoshop to get the Pantone correct. What I've noticed is that the original logo is a 10 year old file that hasn't been updated since its origin. It's in EPS format. When I try to replicate it in a new Illustrator file the colour is much darker even though they are both the same Pantone in both files. Is there a reason for this?
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‎Feb 24, 2017
01:30 AM
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Haha sorry! I missed the yikes! So just to clarify, I cannot go to an external company and get them to litho print on vinyl or is this completely possible? All this is starting to confuse me! If i'm sending our logo to an external printer and clarifying the colours, dimension etc. it should be replicated properly shouldn't it? It should only be our in-house prints that struggle to replicate a similar colour? I just want to get to the bottom of it so in the future we decide we want a new acrylic sign or something similar that the metallic pantone can be used.
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‎Feb 24, 2017
01:14 AM
... But I thought digital printing found it difficult to replicate most Pantones?
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‎Feb 24, 2017
12:38 AM
Yeah! I've been creating these guidelines from what already exists, we have a master logo and that is about it. It's not until I've gone deeper into this that I've recognised how big the problem is. Because I don't have experience in printing on particular materials, should the external printers be able to print metallic inks on anything they print? I'm unaware of the limitations of these inks. I think the best solution for now anyway, is to find something close colour wise that we can print in the office that people won't stop and say 'hang on that's not the same.' So in effect have 2 iterations of the logo, one for all in-house and the other that can be sent to external printers.
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‎Feb 23, 2017
08:44 AM
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Thanks for the response, Yeah, they want one as close as possible so all office based prints are similiar. I think the issue with the external stuff is they've been printing it to a cmyk when it's not possible to print metallic i.e. a piece of vinyl and it's looking way off. I think I have two options, one to tell them to scrap the metallic and pick a pantone that can be converted or like you say find a placeholder and be happy that will be the issue.
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‎Feb 23, 2017
08:02 AM
Hello, please forgive me if this is not in the correct place. I've recently joined a company and been asked to look at all our promotional material. We currently use a Metalic Pantone 8201 c for all our letterheads and business cards etc. We are also looking at producing a brochure. One of the issues i've found is that they never get the colour matching correct, there is never any consistncy between different printers. Some have no metallic look at all and are flat, darker or lighter variances. From my experience it is impossible to recreate this type of colour with a cmyk reference. The bosses at the company like the metallic sheen it gives but it's really hurting our brand consitency. I'm just after suggestions on how to get around this problem so we can print in office and external and have some consistency with the output. Thanks, Sam
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‎Jul 29, 2016
06:33 AM
Just to clarify, it doesn't work in the Ipad reader you have to hold down on the link and select open with Adobe Reader, this lists the files that are available within the file. It's a shame it's like that, Android has no trouble either, just seems to be iOS.
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‎Jul 29, 2016
06:07 AM
I've figured out if you hold down on the file and open with Adobe Reader this works, I'm not familiar with the Apple UI, is this because it is not set up as a default that if you tap it, it opens at the cover sheet?
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‎Jul 29, 2016
05:30 AM
I'm trying to open a PDF Portfolio via Ipad but I only get a cover sheet saying... 'For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later.' There are no documents just this message, I have adobe reader installed so I don't understand what the issue is? Thanks, Sam
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