Approving Print Colors

When you or your customers are approving a proof on our website, please make sure a PMS book is used to confirm colors.

All computer monitors are not calibrated the same.  There are several websites that you can use to see if your monitor is set correctly to reproduce colors accurately. Here's one you can try:

http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/

Even with a correctly calibrated monitor, the colors on your screen may not look like they will on the shirt. Keep in mind, also, the shirt color you are printing on. The colors will be truest to the actual PMS color when printed on a white shirt or on a white underbase. If a PMS color is printed on any other shirt color without an underbase, the color will be affected greatly by the color of the garment. 

Here is a fun test.  The colored squares below are actual PMS colors. Figure out what each color is and post your answers in the comments area.  Whoever answers them all correct first will be awarded a super great $100 coupon.

BLACK 

158

 279

423

warm red

The winners of the $100 coupons are:

Shaun Brown

Cameron B-

Kent Pyper-

Jeff Eden- Teamshop Premium

Please email me at egibby@infoscreenprinting.net so I can send you your coupons.  I know at least 2 of the winners cheated and used photoshop to find the PMS numbers.  How I know this is because the odds of figure out all 5 colors from your monitor are a million to 1.  So, Jeff's  answer is absolutely correct.  All the answers varied quite a bit. That means that everyone saw a different color on their own screen.  Keep this in mind when your customers are approving a digital proof.  Your customers' monitor is going to look different than yours.  So what is the point of me giving away $400 in printing?  It's to get you to communicate to your customers that the proof they see on their computer screen may not match what is printed.  The only way to truly see an accurate representation of the final print is to use a Pantone color chart or pay for a pre-production printed sample to look at. 

Thanks for the work!

Eric

Comments

[Mike]

black
172
285
424
185

did i win

[John]

Black (or Process Black or Hexachrome Black or if you're being tricky a 412, 419, 426, or 433 Dark Grey)
165 Orange (or 021 Orange)
Process Blue (or maybe 299 Blue)
Cool Gray 8 (or if you're being tricky 877 Metallic Silver)
032 Red (or maybe 185 or 485 Red)

[Scott Altman]

Black
Orange
Blue
Grey
Red

Not bad for a colored blind guy! J/K

[Leslie Keating]

black
173
285
430
185

[Shaun Brown]

Black
PMS 158C
PMS 279C
PMS 423C
PMS Warm Red C

[G. Baker]

Black, Orange #152, Cyan blue, Grey #423 & Warm Red.

[kent P]

619
430
185
173
433

[kent P]

279 ec
419 ec
7413 ec
179 ec
422 ec

[D-Money]

-black
-pantone red
-cool gray 9 or 10 (which I am, ha)
-process blue
-warm red

[sknox]

black
021
801
7544
1787

[Cameron B]

Black
158c - for orange
279c - for light blue
423c - for gray
warm red c - for red

[Allen Fogel]

Black
157C
298C
429C
1777C

[Eden]

The colors cannot be determined because each monitor is calibrated differently. Each square will be a different color on a specific monitor.

[Colleen Schorr]

I agree with the color blind guy
Black.
Orange
Blue
Gray
Red

[John]

I'm confused, how did those four people win if they had non matching answers?

[Info Screen Printing]

kent p and Kent Pyper are two different people.
Kent Pyper answered via e-mail and did not post his answers here.

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