Pantone Registration Code
Kathy Douds
This Pantone connect is really starting to bug me from the business aspect of things. How can I add Pantone to all of my employees with the adobe manager? I don't want to have to go through each individual to add it there computer. Is there not a way for me to buy it for all users so they have access to all the pantones? This is a huge problem in the design and printing world right now.
You have to contact Pantone to get an Enterprise Quote. They will then sell you the License Manager at $149 per user. That should allow you to manage your users licenses from an Admin account, but it's not going so well.
Let me move this to the Teams & Enterprise forum for you, which is the appropriate forum for your question.
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Pantone has the right to distribute the palettes, because they own the trademak. If you do not pay the licence fees, you are probably in violation of the licensing terms. You should consult a lawyer for this.
Photoshop 5 is from 1998. I still use it becuase of some plugins work in that version. I will never buy pantone color palettes. Better use other color profiles then. Its pretty easy to find pantone color codes on the internet and enter them as LAB anyway.
We all agree that what Pantone markets is overpriced. But up until recently, Pantone and Adobe had a licensing deal, that was highly profitable to Pantone, as long as users printed in Pantone Colours. But the advent of digital printing made this market go away. Now they are trying to make money from the designers, who want to use Pantone colours. It's nothing more than a commercial decision from Pantone. We need to live with that. I also won't pay for a colour palette that at best I use only rarely.
Adobe had a licence to distribute Pantone colour palettes with their products. As you have Photoshop 5, you can use the colours on Photoshop 5. You are (legally) not allowed transfering those palettes to a current Photoshop. You won't, however, probably never get a letter from a lawyer when you do so, except if you publicly post links to the palettes.
While Adobe CS6 is the first version of the Adobe suite to provide native support for the PANTONE PLUS SERIES libraries, this does not include the 336 newest PANTONE colors from April 2012. These colors are
ToxicTool and Rob Day, thank you both so much for your time and thoughts. I had simultaneously also written to Pantone Support and they sent to me a link to a new fixit file to Pantone Color Manager. I downloaded that and was able to then open a fully functioning Pantone Color Manager, with all the new colors. This was their note:
This does clarify much. Just and excuse. There are MANY people dissatisfied with Adobe and Pantone for not addressing this issue. All things considered, wouldn't you agree this is a problem that so many are find it ridiculous that we have to jump through hoops to get for what we have already paid for?
I've been reading forums and looking this up for over 2 hours trying to get a straight answer on how to get the pantone colors I need added to my Adobe Illustrator and Indesign Creative Cloud software. I've yet to find a way that works or is clear. This is absurd. I have a deadline, and I can't use my Pantone books to digitally mock anything that has the color I need. How do you expect people to use the product if we can't access them through our software? Most designers aren't luddites and we do use computers to do our work.
It contains all of the current .acb files which can be easily installed in PS, ID, and AI. Unless you want the legacy books you'll probably want to remove the older PANTONE .acb book files. So here's my ID Swatch Library with the new books installed:
With regard to your comments concerning Adobe CS6, and lack of support for the 336 newest PANTONE colors, this is precisely the point of having PANTONE Color Manager as a solution. With this software, we are providing our customers with a vehicle to allow immediate access to updated PANTONE libraries, without having to wait for Adobe to produce updates to their software. The reality is that Adobe simply cannot always react immediately to produce updates to the PANTONE libraries within their software.
The numbers you list are in the 336 section. And using File Export Application it does put the palettes in place for use. Once exported, you need to either load them for use via the swatches palette in ID, or add just the colors desired.
As for showing up in PCM, with it running, check for the palette. Click on the fan deck at the lower right and navigaste the pop up menu and it should be listed (or use the View Fan deck menu items). Depending on your update settings, it should by default check for updates to "Pantone Live." Which takes more time than it ought. If automatic updates are turned off and you don't have the 336 fan decks, use the PantoneLive menu and check for updates.
In some cases, the auto-update may fail. If this happens you can simply download the full version 2.1 installer, run it on top of your current installation, and it will update PANTONE Color Manager to version 2.1. For full details, please send e-mail to sup...@pantone.com.
I have an additional question - I use multiple computers (laptop, desktop, imac) and want to activate the PCM on all of the machines (of which I am a single user). When I type in the serial number, it tells me that it isn't valid - after having installed it on one of these devices.
If you have multiple PANTONE books, you can register each one individually and have an inidividual license for PANTONE Color Manager for each product registration. Additional licenses can be purchased separately - please e-mail to sup...@pantone.com for details.
Thanks for keeping up with this thread. I bought the Pantone Formula Guide a month ago and then last week the hard drive on my computer completely crashed and I had to buy a new computer. I'm trying to access the colors in the Pantone Color Manager but it's asking me to enter my product key again and every time I do that I get a message that says either the product key is invalid or it's already registered on another device and I have to deactivate that device before I can use it on another device. The problem is that that device is no longer functional - I can't deactivate it because the hard drive is completely fried. I am having Apple install a new hard drive right now but even when I get that back it will be like buying a brand new computer - there is no possible way for me to deactivate the old hard drive because it is completely dead. What should I do to get this fixed? I don't think it's fair that just because my computer died and I had registered it that I have to buy another code. I'm pretty upset right now because I'm on deadline and can't access the colors I need and Pantone closes at 5pm on the east coast and I'm on the west coast....
Well, that is just user friendly software for you. You are treated as a criminal until the opposite is proven. And things like that always happen with a crazy deadline just round the bend. Sorry that I cant provide a fix
I would send them a tech support email. It sometimes takes a while to get a response, but I have always gotten one. In my case, every once in a while I need to delete a cache, then things work again. I don't know if that will be the solution in your case.
I have the trial of CC2014 installed, though it is past the trial period. I just looked in the swatches folder and I am a bit surprised that the Version 2 Pantone Plus libraries are not installed with it. The Version 2 libraries have the 336 new colors rolled into them.
This is absolutely ridicules as far as I am concerned. Targeting designers is going to have the reverse effect of earing revenue. We already pay thousands of dollars for paper swatches... to make us start paying for the swatches for the digital swatches as well (the last step in the workflow) is greedy.
2. 95% of peoples workflow is to use the physical colour swatches to see how they reproduce and then select them from the digital swatch book. Most people don't need to see how they look on screen through different profiles.
If you've bought swatch books, you don't have to pay for Pantone Colour Manager. Still, I would question the wisdom of Pantone ever charging for a pretty shoddy piece of software that encourages the use of their system.
I'd question point 2, and the 95% figure. Designers for spot colour print should use printed swatches in their process, but I fear much more than 5% don't these days. And having accurate on-screen representations is invaluable when you're experimenting, as is having the lab values for colour management.
I do share your general disdain for the Pantone of today, though, and I don't think their matching system has a long-term future. A new, open-source method of specifying spot inks would be wonderful, and I think it's been attempted, unsuccessfully. I guess a more realistic replacement will be based on some kind of colorimetry.
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