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Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing
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Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 681.62
EAN: 9780811827577
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0811827577
Label: Chronicle Books
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 15, 2000
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Studio: Chronicle Books
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Editorial Review:
Today graphic design is done almost exclusively on screen, where colors look different than when they are printed. To help designers and the people who work with them address this critical disparity, authors Michael and Pat Rogondino have completely revised and expanded their standard manual, Computer Color (0-87701-739-5). A boon for all designers, production people, artists, and printers, Process Color Manual provides an astounding 24,000 colors that match from computer display to printed page. The standard-issue Pantone color books, by comparison, can cost as much as $175 and offer only 3000 colors! Also included with the book is a handy cardboard mask, white on one side and black on the other, that allows the user to isolate a specific block of color. This sturdy color guide partly came about due to demand from the people who have sworn by the previous edition: Chronicle Books designers. For accuracy, accessability, value, and sheer volume, Process Color Manual is indispensible to everyone who works with graphics and colors.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Shouldn't be without it...
20-odd years in the design industry and I have no idea why I haven't had a book like this yet. I've been mentally mixing colors for a long time now, and yet it's a fantastic thing to be able to see what that subtle difference is between 25c+100y and 30c+100y looks like in print. OK, it only approximates based on one press and coated paper, but at the end of the day, it's better than your monitor. So get the book and dispense with a good bit of guesswork. It takes a minute to get used to how to find ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent reference book
I owned a previous version of this book at my last job and plan to purchase this for my own use. As others have said, it contains an amazing number of combinations not available in most books. It takes a little bit of flipping through the book to understand how it is laid out, but the concept is very difficult anyway to put down on paper. I think that this book has accomplished making it as simple as it can get while still being very comprehensive.
Rating: - Process Color Manual
Buy this. Discover what you have been missing on this exceptionally complicated subject.
Learn how to match the use of color(s) to your project.
Take your usage of color to a level well beyond your experience with the easy to understand non-techno language.
Excellent investment.
Rating: - Nice book
Well, I've been using CorelDraw for a short time, and this book helped me a lot about printing preview colors.
Rating: - Rich reference for a low price
The book contains many color swatches and its very useful when you want a specific shade printed. It's a pitty it doesn't have even the primitive index, that could help a lot when looking for most popular colors. This is the book every print designer should have on their desk. However I recommend having Pantone Color Bridge too for spot colors. Having these two references is surely enough to work easily on most prepress projects.
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