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In article <1992Oct29.031409.303@pages.com> Sean_Church@pages.com(Sean Church)  
writes:
> Also, remember that pantone can not make two swatch chips that are identical.  
> Go grab two books of PMS colors, and you will see what I mean. I come from a  
> Pre-press background..... I have seen this many many times. Trust nothing  
with  
> color. Ever.
> 
> Sean
> sean@pages.com

We have the book, a set of slides with pantone swatches sent to our
film recorder, a set of the same files printed on QMS. So I know 
enough to ignore what's on the screen and select appropriate color
for postscript slide or laser output BUT....Recently one of our files
was wanted for a color illus in a journal. I knew if they did a separation
from the 35 mm transparency the color would be off and, more important,
the text would be fuzzy. The logical next step would have been
to print seperations on our linotronic to neg film. And I knew I
needed certain info from the journal: exact size, screen res. but
what else did I need to know? And could I really trust the color?
And what set of colors to chose from - the tranies? the QMS? or the 
Pantone Book? or none of the above 'cause who knows how our L300
dinosaur is calibrated (or not.)  Is there software Mac or NeXT really
usefull for prepress? A manual that's really useful in the real world?

My solution was to beg a friend who is a wizard to perform his magic
on the file for free, but I'd really like to learn more myself.