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Print Color Boook Swatches or Equivelant

Explorer ,
Mar 01, 2018 Mar 01, 2018

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Is there a way to load the color books into a printable format so you can print all the swatches from Illustrator. I want a color reference chart of what my printer and my Illustrator profile settings are doing to color when it prints. I'm sick of chasing colors around, if I had a full spectrum color chart with swatches I could look at the printed chart off the printer and at least be in the ballpark.

Currently I manually make a couple dozen swatches with slight CMYK variations in them, print those, see what's close to the target color, then make more adjustments, etc. until I get something close.

There is a new version of my RIP software that does this automatically, it'll make 20, 30 50 swatches close to your target color then you pick which CMYK formula looks the best to your target color. This new RIP software is very expensive, wondering if there is a script or way to print the color books from Illustrator.

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Community Expert , Mar 01, 2018 Mar 01, 2018

The   RenderSwatchLegend

works fine, but you probably have to change the number of columns.

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Mar 01, 2018 Mar 01, 2018

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You can use blends to generate variations of colors.

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If I use a blend or gradient I'd have to visualize the value across a blend instead of looking at a solid 2x2 or 4x4 swatch. I thought of taking a screen shot of the Illustrator color books and printing those, but the RGB screen shot wouldn't be an accurate translation of color.

Just trying to avoid making 500 squares and manually filling them in with Pantone colors

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wundes.com is interesting, some cool stuff there. The randomize color script would almost work, I'll keep looking for the SwatchLegend

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The   RenderSwatchLegend

works fine, but you probably have to change the number of columns.

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Thanks a Ton!!

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A script can help print swatches loaded into the Swatches Panel:

renderSwatchLegend from

wundes.com

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