The Trouble with Pantone Books
“PMS chip-color books can be buggy.” With just these six words, Pamela touched-off a fury of comments in my Print Production Professionals Group. “There have been times when we will lay five PMS books side-by-side to show that a particular color chip will not match from book-to-book.”
Yes, but Pamela, this does not mean they are “buggy” (is that a technical term BTW?). Here’s part of the problem...
- Categories:
- Color/Quality Control - Hardware
- Companies:
- X-Rite Inc.
Sabine Lenz is the founder of PaperSpecs.com, the first online paper database and community specifically designed for paper specifiers.
Growing up in Germany, Sabine started her design career in Frankfurt, before moving to Australia and then the United States. She has worked on design projects ranging from corporate identities to major road shows and product launches. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, her list of clients included Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Bank, IBM and KPMG.
Seeing designers struggle worldwide to stay current with new papers and paper trends inspired Sabine to create PaperSpecs, an independent and comprehensive Web-based paper database and weekly e-newsletter. She is also a speaker on paper issues and the paper industry. Some refer to her lovingly as the "paper queen" who combines her passion for this wonderful substrate called paper with a hands-on approach to sharing her knowledge.
