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Hi this is Matthew from Advantage Sign Supply with another quick tip.
Today, I'm going to show you how to print a custom swatch table and be able to print
that swatch table as a chart for easy reference for both you as a designer and for end users
as customers. First of all, we need to make a new swatch
table. We can either right click on an existing open
chart and go to open table. We can get to that same menu by going to our
View menu, under color, and we have open a new table there.
We're going to create a new table first, which will just be blank.
Then we're going to open up an existing color table, say our Gerber Scientific table for
our 220 vinyls. That will show all of the possible 220 vinyls
that Gerber has created. We can click and drag that up to our window
to see it better, and even make it a little larger.
Now, as opposed to having to process through all of this, we can pick just the colors that
we use as the colors that we normally keep in stock, and click and drag those into our
existing color table. Once we have all the colors that we need from
that chart, we can close that out. We can also get other tables from our View
menu, under color, open table. Within your swatch library menu, you have
colors from 3M, Avery, Gerber, as well as a full Pantone library.
We can open up our Pantone and select our solid coated library which is a pretty common
color space. Drag that up and open it.
We'll grab just a few of these as well. Once we're finished creating our swatch table,
we can create a chart of that very simply by going to our view menu and create swatch.
Once we click of current pallet, it'll show us a sample of what that will look like.
In DesignCentral, we can control the specifics. In this example, we're going to make 1 inch
squares of each color. We're going to put 5 inches of space in between
them for the color names. And 1.25 inch of vertical space in-between
each one so that we have some white space in between each color.
We're going to do 4 rows across, and then for our table, we're going to use the new
table that we have created here. Under our advance tab, that allows us to pick
just the colors we want to show in this table, as well as pick the type size and type style
that our labels will be in. Once we're done with that, we'll hit our checkbox
and that shows us our setup. Now, this is grouped together, but if you
have something like this issue here, where the name overlaps your lettering, you can
always grab it and ungroup it. Then grab just the two layers there, and manually
shift them off to the side. Once you have this printed, you'll be able
to show it to a customer to have them choose specific colors, or you can use it as a designer
to pick the color that you know your printer prints best.
Hope this has been helpful for you, and we'll see you next time.