Pantone Seeks Beta Testers for Color Manager Software

Theresa Stone

Press Release
COLOR MANAGER Software is a robust desktop application for the Macintosh operating systems* that provides the assurance and confidence to use the latest PANTONE Colors accurately. A version supporting Windows will be made available soon.
COLOR MANAGER will update all of the PANTONE libraries – more than 9,000 colors in all, including the dazzling new PLUS SERIES Colors – and make them ready to use in your QuarkXPress, Corel and Adobe Creative Suite design programs. COLOR MANAGER will let you use ICC profiles to create your own color-managed PANTONE Color libraries and sync up those libraries to your myPANTONE iPhone app. Creative color control just got personal and portable!
Key features of COLOR MANAGER:
* Automatically updates all PANTONE Color Libraries – and keeps them up to date
* Uses PANTONE PLUS Color Bridge values
* Will also build ICC profile-based device-specific CMYK recipes for any PANTONE Graphics library (PANTONE Fashion + Home libraries will be added in future releases)
* Simulates and helps you visualize spot vs. 4-color process, including display and print gamut warnings to make it easy to identify any colors that cannot be properly printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
* Synchronizes spot color values to design applications
Enables synchronization of device-specific values to myPANTONE iPhone application and the myPANTONE X-Ref iPhone application (including standard PANTONE Color Bridge CMYK values)
COLOR MANGER supports QuarkXPress 7 and 8, Corel and all Adobe Creative Suite versions of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator**. PANTONE Color libraries included are the PANTONE PLUS SERIES and Pantone Goe System for multimedia and graphic design and, in future releases, the Pantone SMART System for Fashion + Home.
COLOR MANAGER – a $49.95 value – when released, it is FREE to all registered product owners myPANTONE members. The software will also available for separate purchase.
Join the Public Beta
Pantone is inviting all of our customers to participate in a public beta test of our COLOR MANAGER Software. In addition to being among the first to bring exciting new colors and unmatched creative control into your designs, you’ll also be able to share your great ideas with Pantone! Once the beta test is complete, you will automatically receive the final version of the software.
REGISTER your PLUS SERIES Product to download your free copy of PANTONE COLOR MANAGER Software. This software will update your design applications with new PLUS SERIES Colors.
The PANTONE PLUS Digital Libraries Installer is a FREE utility that allows you to integrate the PANTONE PLUS Libraries quickly and easily into your design applications.
This software is currently available as a public beta.
*COLOR MANAGER for Windows is forthcoming.
** COLOR MANAGER Adobe Illustrator update is still in development and will be made available as soon as possible.
Please note: There will be no iPhone support in the initial beta period.