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Top 3 Pantone Color Guides for Both Process and Spot Color Work

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

These Pantone color guides provide color-matching tools for both spot and process color selection at a savings over purchasing individual guides separately. Swatch book sets include both spot and process colors with CMYK formulas. These also provide CMYK formulas for PMS spot colors.

1. PANTONE Reference Library

When you want it all, get it all with this collection of all the solid and process fan guides and chips plus guides for metallic, pastel, tints, and solid to process colors. Probably not a viable choice for most freelancers, expect to spend around $1500US.

2. PANTONE Color Bridge (formerly Solid to Process Guides Coated)

This fan guide replacement for the Solid to Process Guides provides a larger color swatch comparison showing how solid colors will look when printed in CMYK. Has Web and print color comparisons, tints.
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3. Xerox Digital Chips

See how PMS colors will look when printed on Xerox Digital Color Presses. Three books to choose from for three different printers. Each features 1,089 solid colors on coated stock in both spot color and 4-color inks. Includes 4 tear-out chips for each color.
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