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steveb · 21-05-2007, 10:10

I'd stick my neck out and say NO! Greens especially are notorious for not looking anything like you think they'll turn out.

Do your overprint thingy onscreen and turn the result into CMYK. Then measure the colour values, e.g. C20 M0 Y27 K0. Then get hold of a printer's colour guide which has thousands of colour squares with all variations from 0 0 0 0 to 100 100 100 100. You'll be able to check at least whether your overprint is going to be near what you want.

I've found that even checking like that, it's difficult to evaluate visually the shade because of the small size of the square,

21-05-2007, 10:10	#6 (permalink)
steveb 389 ppm and rising Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Järvenpää, Finland Posts: 5,414	I'd stick my neck out and say NO! Greens especially are notorious for not looking anything like you think they'll turn out. Do your overprint thingy onscreen and turn the result into CMYK. Then measure the colour values, e.g. C20 M0 Y27 K0. Then get hold of a printer's colour guide which has thousands of colour squares with all variations from 0 0 0 0 to 100 100 100 100. You'll be able to check at least whether your overprint is going to be near what you want. I've found that even checking like that, it's difficult to evaluate visually the shade because of the small size of the square, __________________ My free fonts www.utfi.net