Pantone 872...

[bendeane]

I know this is a silly question, but what would be the best way to match the hue of Pantone Gold 872? I'm using Flexi 8.6 and a double sided super smooth PET banner material. Any suggestions?

 

[Custom_Grafx]

Best way would be to use a spectro and a custom profile.

Illustrator brings up 20/30/70/15 or 171/150/93 for RGB, when converted from PMS.

Or, you could put 10 squares next to each other with slightly different values and through trial and error pick the best square?

 

[HaroldDesign]

I don't remember the values, but I found converting 871 to process makes a nice all 'round gold.

 

[SolitaryT]

The most tedius yet effective I've found, if you have the time and material to spare, is to print PMS swatches on the material. Then, like Mr. Custom_Grafx says, it's trial and error.

 

[Rooster]

We always used to use either 100Y 20M 35K or 100Y 35M 20K to get a decent "fake" gold hue when I was working in the offset world. I can't remember which way the M and K values split, but I'm pretty sure on the numbers.

Using the LAB specs for most metallics tends to produce a casted version that doesn't look quite right when converted to process.