Now we can produce verified proofs but our dark pms background isn't exactly a perfect match to the swatch in the Pantone books and is overprinted by a very light version of itself. We had no proofing system to speak of up until the first of this year when we purchased an Epson 7890 with EFI ColorProof rip. We have done this now, like I said for 11 years, about 55 languages totaling around 7 million books a year. The quality is good and it is a nice looking book. Sorry but you asked, well maybe not for all of this.
To make it even more complicated, the dark pms background color for a particular year, when print our foreign translations, gets printed on a tab on the spine of those books to denote the volume year that one is from. Result is a 6-color job, 4-color images, 2 pms inks, reversed type out of all 6 colors, aqueous gloss coating over all. I know, I know, one of the most difficult designs we could have come up with, but its what we do. Long version of long story.to start with, we designed and print these in-house for ourselves.The colors were picked from swatch books originally, and the design ended up being that we lay down the solid dark pms, then it's overprinted with a very light colored version of that pms, 100% coverage, just to give a hint of a shade in a duotone photo on the back cover and to put a bit of tone down where the dark pms is a vignette and fades to 50% at the top of the book covers. Well Gordo, they aren't spec'd or proofed exactly.
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