[scribus] A different Pantone need

[Christoph Schäfer]

> Gesendet: Montag, 19. Oktober 2020 um 18:05 Uhr
> Von: "ZASKE Martin" <zm at revue-gugu.org>
> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: [scribus] A different Pantone need
>
> Hello List,
>
> I have used Scribus 1.5.5 to prepare a file to be silk-screen-printed
> unto t-shirts.
>
> Now I am stuck with the online order:
>
> The print-shop will print with special fabric-ink and their
> online-order-mask gives a choice of colours, all referenced by the
> Pantone Solid Coated series. For example we want our text printed in
> "PANTONE Yellow 012 C".
>
> So I do not care what it looks like on my screen; I have 255 233 0 as an
> approximation to show my team.
>
> But our online affordable printer, is needing the color-information
> encoded into our PDF/X-4 file because they offer many different colours
> and their order-process is fully automated.
>
> I have looked through this list and seen some hacks on how to handle
> Pantone-equivalents with basically RGB swatches, but our need is all
> different.
>
>
>
> I also just created an export to PDF/X-4 and opened it with my best
> editor. I can read but I see no obvious structure. When I needed, I
> boldly edit Scribus .sla files, but those are "nice" compared to this
> PDF syntax.
>
>
>
> It would be a shame after all those years with Scribus, to rob a bank
> and get InDesign, just to convert my (already designed) T-shirt document
> for the print-shop-upload.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thank you, greetings,
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,


Hmm, Pantone Solid Coated colours for screen printing? That rings some alarm bells with me right from the start. Solid Coated is for printing on coated paper, not on textiles. If they really need these Pantone named colours, you can download and install Adobe CC, provided you have access to a current version of Windows or OS X. You can then (during the trial phase) collect the Pantone colours you need in a new palette and save it as ASE, which can be imported into Scribus.

If what your print shop needs is ink formulas to produce the necessary spot colours, I suggest you download the free colour libraries, including a CxF file for ink-mixing software from freiefarbe.de.


Kind regards,
Christoph