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November 6, 2019
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Illustrator 2020: How to have Pantone with integral CMYK values (Legacy)? Was working in 2019

  • November 6, 2019
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My problem:

I work in the printing business and when we use Pantone colors, we need the colors to show in CMYK, not Lab. I was able to use the turnaround in all previous versions but not in 2020. Is there a way to do it in the new version?

I did this https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html in the past and it always worked. But not anymore.

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Monika Gause
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November 6, 2019

Then you need to use a different library. You can't use the solid libraries if you need CMYK.

 

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November 8, 2019

I work in flexography printing, we're making flexo plates. Most of the time, like on 90% of the jobs, we receive files that have too many pantone colors. So, let's say, a printer can only print 8 colours on his press, we need to convert some Pantones into CMYK. But I need the Pantone with whole and accurate numbers. Before, I was able to just use the "Use CMYK values from the manufacturer's process books" option from "Spot Colors Option".

Now, on Illustrator 2020, it doen't work. It was useful because sometimes clients come back later and ask us to make the 485 in Pantone and convert an other color to stay under the 8 colours limit. It was easy to revert with one click and convert the other one with one click.

Because in our field, you want to print a Pantone 485 with 95% magenta and 100% yellow. Printing a 485 with 7.92% cyan, 97.1 magenta, 100 Yellow and 0.83% of black won't work.

Monika Gause
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Community Expert
November 8, 2019

Well, Pantone changed the way these libraries work (back in 2012) and the workaround has been to install the old libraries. But if you can't use the old libraries anymore then that's that. You have to rethink your workflow. Remap the colors in your design to other Pantone libraires that are CMYK based.