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Joseph3392
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January 29, 2019
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Issues with converting swatches to Pantones in Illustrator

  • January 29, 2019
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Hello,

I haven't had this issue before but when I convert my swatches to PANTONES in Illustrator they revert back to Out of Gamut Warning. I've restarted Illustrator, the computer, and still nothing.

Here are my steps;

I select all the colors I want to switch to Pantone

I create a "new color group"

Click Edit Color Book

Then clicked Limits the colors to a colors swatch library

Chose Pantone + SOLID coated

And I still received the Out of Gamut Warning even tho I already clicked the cautionary triangle symbol to put them into CMYK range.

I did this over 5 times and one file actually worked ( I have no idea how) but my other files are having the same problem.

Please help!

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Joseph3392Author
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January 29, 2019

Because I'm sending these files to a production factory to have to them printed. They need to proper Pantone colors.

Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2019

When converting to Pantone solid spot colors, why do you care about the out of gamut warning?

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    Joseph3392Author
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    January 29, 2019

    Because I'm sending these files to a production factory to have to them printed. They need to proper Pantone colors.

    John Mensinger
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    John MensingerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 29, 2019

    I'm sorry for the confusion,

    But I placed those original swatches into the my color library to find the Pantone colors. I laid this list of colors for production. I created the image that consists of those colors. The problem is that we had a sample that came out slightly off from the desired color. So if I see Out of Gamut Warning I should disregard it? Because when I convert it to the CMYK range and create a new color group, the warning displays again after repeating the process.


    Joseph3392  wrote

    I'm sorry for the confusion,

    Me too, but the descriptions you've posted don't produce a clear picture of a standard workflow.

    The problem is that we had a sample that came out slightly off from the desired color.

    A sample of what? It sounds like there is clothing and some related material in the output, but you probably shouldn't have tags and labels in the same workflow as the fabrics. What was the desired color? On what substrate? Using what output method?

    As for the Out-Of-Gamut warning, many spot (Pantone Solid) colors are outside of the CMYK gamut; that's a significant part of the reason they exist; to enable repeatable and match-able printing of colors that can't be realized in CMYK.

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