Pantone bug?

[Kenneth C. Benson]

Steve Rickaby wrote:

> I have been asked to use Pantone 164 for a design. There appears to
> be an oddity with FrameMaker's Pantone libraries, which give Pantone
> 164CVU, for example, as C:0 M:47 Y:76 K:0, which is a browny-orange,
> instead of the correct purple tint, C:50 M:100 Y:0 K:0, as in, for
> example, Illustrator.


I'm confused. What does it matter what the CMYK conversion is? PMS 164 
is a printer's ink mix and there's nothing you can do on your computer 
to change that mix.

If you're going to print a spot color, then you need a spot color plate. 
It's nice if that plate has the right name on it, but it's not even 
necessary. You can make a color and call it "Steve's Purple" and then 
tell the printer to use PMS 164 for Steve's Purple.

If you're going to print process color, then use the CMYK mix that you 
like, and forget about PMS 164.

Or am I missing something? Are you printing 5-color?

Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com