Pantone 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 C

Pantone 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.