Pantone Color Bridge Set

by Pantone

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 3.8 x 1.8 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FLXU9W
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• Item model number: GPS207
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,993 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2006

Product Description

The PANTONE® color bridge set illustrates how PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® Colors will reproduce in CMYK on coated and uncoated stock. Although many can be successfully rendered, there are a large majority that cannot due to the limitations of the four-color process as compared to using pre-mixed inks. The fan guides display 1,089 solid PANTONE Colors alongside their closest four-color process match. In addition to CMYK screen tint percentages provided for each process color, sRGB and HTML values are listed for every solid PANTONE Color.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Digital Printers, November 9, 2007

By 

Nick Young "Nick" (California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pantone Color Bridge Set (Misc.)

I am a part time Graphic Designer, and full time Pre-press worker for a 4-Color digital print shop. This book is perfect for that.

Many people bring their print jobs in to us and say "I need Pantone 320 for the logo" and we have to explain over and over again that many Pantone colors are impossible to create using on the CMYK color gamut. They always look at us like we are crazy.

Now we can just show them the color swatch and how much different it will look when printed in CMYK. Then we can work on finding the closest equivalent color.

It's more expensive than other books because it has double the number of color chips in it. But if you plan on printing with any 4 Color Digital, or Press printers it's a must have.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect For Your Clients, March 7, 2008

By 

Nick (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pantone Color Bridge Set (Misc.)

This a great set, that would should be on every designer's desk.

I've used this set to help my clients choose and match colors they want used for their designs, which allows me to provide a digital file to them with both the CMYK and PMS colors called out. Many times a client wants to be able to take their design to a local digital print shop, so it's nice to be able to show the client exactly what they can expect from the output and to know that there won't be any surprises when they get the piece back.

There are two sets of matching swatches: PMS solids on the left and the matching CMYK on the right. The solids provide the PMS number, the RGB values, and the HTML hexadecimal value. The CMYK matching colors provide the PMS number and the CMYK values.

This is an invaluable tool and one that we can use to help educate our clients.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pantone Color Bridge Set, January 19, 2008

By 

George E. Zorgo Jr. "Value Guy" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pantone Color Bridge Set (Misc.)

Without this, graphics professionals would be clueless as to how their spot colors would transfer to CMYK.
This small investment will yield BIG BENEFITS:
Select your spot colors based on how they will convert to CMYK
Never have a client call with the bad news that their corporate spot color printed wrong in a CMYK magazine.
If you don't have this tool, stay out of the color design/production field.