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Colors on your monitor may be misleading
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We design using Pantone colors but monitors, which vary from person to person, use RGB color. The monitor is then converting the Pantone colors used to RGB to view on the monitor.
The only way to view how a color will print is to see it printed (using a Pantone swatch or a print sample). Even when printed there is a chance of difference in color as the inks need to be mixed to make the specific color. Beyond seeing it printed, the best representation of color is to design using Pantone colors and to view it in RGB. I have noticed though, as a side note, that when I output to a file that is CMYK that is then converted to RGB by the monitor, that is is closer (a touch) to the color I am printing.
Another factor is that we design using Pantone coated colors because the majority of the clients will be printing to coated paper. If they take this to a printer to print on uncoated paper and the printer does not check the colors (this happened to me with one of my clients), the colors will turn out VERY different, dull compared to that on the monitor |
