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Miss_Mac
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July 16, 2018
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How to Add Pantone Plastics Colour Book

  • July 16, 2018
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I've been given a set of branding guidelines by a client and asked to mock up some business card designs. The colour palette is in Pantone Industrial Design (plastics). I've never seen this before - I always use Pantone Solid Coated or Uncoated and InDesign CC 2018. Pantone Industrial isn't in the list of options I can choose. Any suggestions?

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Correct answer SJRiegel

Pantone Plastics are not ink colors, so there may not be a library you can add for print. 

Maybe this cross-reference will be of help, but they can't expect the colors to match exactly. Maybe look up their plastics colors on this chart, and send them chips for approval before proceeding.

https://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/plastics2pms.pdf

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jonasf5799369
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August 20, 2018

I am in the same situation and that pdf chart helped with 2 out of 4 for me but it seems to miss some color codes. I am looking for a conversion to PMS, RGB, CMYK or just any regular chart for Q410-4-1 and Q180-5-4 which i can't find in that PDF.

Any help appreciated!

Steve Werner
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Steve WernerCommunity Expert
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August 20, 2018

And you're asking here because?.... Since it's clear this isn't happening in InDesign, you should be asking Pantone representatives.

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SJRiegelCorrect answer
Legend
July 16, 2018

Pantone Plastics are not ink colors, so there may not be a library you can add for print. 

Maybe this cross-reference will be of help, but they can't expect the colors to match exactly. Maybe look up their plastics colors on this chart, and send them chips for approval before proceeding.

https://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/plastics2pms.pdf

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    Miss_MacAuthor
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    July 17, 2018

    thank you!

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    January 14, 2023

    As with all such things, since no process can "print" or create these colors, any close approximation will work within a tool like InDesign. The only need can be to create visual comps; the only control ID has is the color etc. of any printing to be done on plastic stock of these defined colors.

     

    Very much a case where "close is good enough," IMHO, and it doesn't take much skill to create a matching color swatch for the Adobe tools.

     

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    July 16, 2018

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