Pantone Colours Question

[intrepidguppy]

Hi all,

I am going to realy show my lack of experience here but here goes:

I am trying to learn a lot myself and am doing well. But some basics still elude me.

1) When saving archives for clients what is the standard Pantone to save it in?
I have traditionally been giving clients 'Coated' as this translates best to web images when saving files on RGB.

For most stationery is the standard 'uncoated'? What is the difference? If you can point me to learning areas I'd really appreciate it. Or point me to instructional material you know of.

Also...when saving files, what in the world is ICC and is it important?

Thanks

Ivan

[rinaldidesigns]

I save in uncoated....uncoated means the printing will be done on uncoated stock(coated=coated stock) the color may very on different stocks(uncoated papers asorb ink more)..........the best/only way to control color is through specifying with pantone swatchbooks, most commercial printers use as well...hope I help a little

[Chung Dha]

Pantone are more use in process of pressing the design on paper and not printing. Because you want to be as cheap as possible with pressing a large amount of letter or businesscard you really don't want it to be printed. You go to a presser and he make a mold of your design with a special machine. If your letter got 2 pms color the presser only need to make 2 molds and use those 2 inkts. If you made design only in CYMK that means its full color and the presser need to make 4 molds and use 4 inkts. That means it will cost much more then when you use pms colors.

Mainly the letter behind the color number is the paper kind. So mostly depend what they want to use them for and on which paper. The 3 color books the colors are all the same with same color code but on different paper. Mostly you give pantone code pluse rgb codes. So they know how to edit it to Like Pantone 187 C is coated and Pantone 187 M is mat, but both are same dark red.

Haven't heard about ICC though.

[rinaldidesigns]

...what is a presser(is it a printer?)
when ever I've gone to printer('to press') I specify pantone swatch for the output..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone

[zooley]

ICC stays for profiles. Printers, monitors have ICC profiles for printing, adjusted for different materials, and here are i mean large format printers too (1.8, 3.2 meter and so on...).

http://www.color.org/index.xalter

[Chung Dha]

It sound confusin a printer, cause every one got a printer at home and a printing company can print large amount digitally or press it. But most press cause its cheaper. Bit weird that printer got double meanings. In dutch we call them drukker literal translation a presser in english. Cause printing is digital ink jet or laser , and press is bit more analog cause of the use with molds.