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> The actual CMYK needed is only known to the printer driver or even just internal to the printer. You'll need to convert. Since you are converting anyway, ther
by shakna 8y ago
> The actual CMYK needed is only known to the printer driver or even just internal to the printer. You'll need to convert. Since you are converting anyway, there is no need to start from a color space as awkward as CMYK.
Note that this rarely applies to professional printers - as there is no "driver" as such. It's a several stage process, which relies heavily on the person involved. The 4 colours are mostly for cost reasons, otherwise you have to resort to spot colours.
The Pantone colourset is well-defined, and transfers to process printing well, but it is CMYK.
The average person has no need of it, but the professional will find it essential.
- tropo 8y agoPantone is not CMYK and can not even be represented by CMYK. From Wikipedia: "However, most of the Pantone system's 1,114 spot colors cannot be simulated with CMYK but with 13 base pigments (14 including black) mixed in specified amounts." Every printer has something equivalent to a driver. It may be called something else. It may be a special printer program to run, or even a web service on the printing hardware that will accept jobs. All sorts of crazy variation is possible, and it doesn't matter. At some point in the process, there is a mechanism to convert from device-independent colors to device-specific colors. There is no good reason for the device-independent colors to be CMYK, and plenty of reasons to avoid CMYK.