Pantone 201 to CMYK

Pick that color from your swatches either in illustrator or photoshop. Be specific whether you want Coated or Uncoated (and there are other variations of PMS colors other than these!)

PMS Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated percentages (they are the same):
C0% M10C% (not sure what the C is for) Y63 K29%

So what are you trying to do exactly?

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One of our customers (we are a newspaper) is trying to duplicate the SC Gamecock's color scheme for something for his newspaper. I checked and the color is Pantone 201, but we strictly use CMYK, so I couldn't help him with his values. The C stands for cyan... Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Thanks tons!

Kennie, I would use C30 M70 Y50 K15, but I'd check with your pressman (woman) to be sure. A lot can depend on how hot the press runs, whether it tends to favor one drum (ink) over another, etc.

I appreciate the help!

Wish us luck! lolol

I have a copy of the Pantone Process Colour Simulator & according to it the conversion for 201 is c0 m100 y60 k40

I got the same as Nato - C0 M100 Y63 K29.

The easiest way to this is to draw a square of your color in Illustrator, then convert it to CMYK in the color palette and read the numbers. That is if you don't have a swatch book then will give you the conversions. The percentages in Illustrator come from Pantone.

I agree that there's no guarantees when it comes to printing on newsprint. Keep in mind, too, the darker shade of newsprint stock will also have an impact on how your colors turn out.

Thanks to you all! We're going to try to scheme without the cyan. The cyan seems to make the color more on the purple side.
Thanks again!
Kennie

I don't know if this is already solved but these numbers are differing from the numbers I found in my Pantone provided swatch conversion book.

The conversion is different for coated an uncoated.

I'll just let you know what it says for uncoated since u are looking at newsprint.

201 U = c8 m89 y59 k22

I'm a bit late to the party, but would like to post for interest sake. Download this profile for www.color.org and install in your Profiles folder.

http://www.color.org/registry/SNAP_2007.xalter

Pantone 201 U --> SNAP 2007.icc = 22,71,47,14
Pantone 201 C --> SNAP 2007.icc= 21,85,63,18

SNAP stands for Specifications for Newsprint Advertising Production and it is similar to Specifications Web Offset Publications (SWOP) in that it is an effort to give agencies the ability to create accurate in-house proofs and separations.

You may not be interested in Total Ink Densities, Dot Gain, Black Generation and other technical aspects of Newsprint presses, but if you want to get a good 4 color separation of a Pantone, use the SNAP 2007.icc profile to generate your numbers and you'll have a much better result on press.

If you want to create SNAP proofs (and not simply proper SNAP separations, as I described here), that would take a lot more explaining. For now, simply realize that most proofers are set up for SWOP rather than SNAP standards, so while your separations (and on-screen preview) would be correct, your proof would be "incorrect" and therefore misleading.

Hope this is somewhat helpful.