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A Free file of the CorelDraw Default RGB color palette ready to print on a large format printer
In CorelDraw, on a new design window, draw a rectangle and fill it with RED from one of your color palettes. Now, let say you don’t like that red, so you click on the RED again, but this time hold down the button until a box appears with 49 variations of the color red.
What if you could have that box of 49 colors ready to print out so you could quickly see if any of those 49 variations of red are going to look like you desire in your finished print?
I did that with the CorelDraw X4 Default RGB Color Palette. Excluding the black and gray tones, my Default RGB palette has 88 colors, each color having 49 variations. That equals 4312 colors, not counting the black and gray tones.
I created a 49 square inch box of 7 divisions across and 7 divisions down; each box is 1 square inch. Then I filled each square with each color variation. My printer (Roland SP540V ) is 54 inch wide so it will print 6 boxes across comfortably. I set my design page paper size to 50 X 50 inch and placed 6 boxes across and 6 boxes down. To get all the colors, 3 pages were created, 36 boxes to each page. The final result is 3 pages, with just 16 boxes on page 3.
Next, I printed each page, one at a time, because the entire print is 140 inches long, and it makes me nervous trying to print something that big in my current location. Then I cut each box out and put them in a binder, each “page” now being about 8 x 8 inches; 88 pages of 49 easy to see colors on each page.
We have all learned the hard way that the colors we design with will not look the same when we print on our wide format printers. Final Color = The printer, the ink it uses, the vinyl brand or type, with the correct profile selected for that material, quality of the print ( high speed or high quality ) and laminated or not laminated. When it comes down to it, you would really have to print this chart on every media you use, then print the chart again and laminate a second set. (I’m not going to do that. I only use Arlon calandered air release and only laminate when I have to. Or, you could just select and print 1 box of 1 color or even just 1 row of the box(red for example, row 1 all seven color variations)
Did this take a long time to do? No. It took an INSANE amount of time to create. Monument sign building is a little slow right now, so I did this a little each day over the past 8 months for my own use.
Would you like this chart? Could you use something like this? It’s FREE! I’ll share it! There is one catch: I need somebody or several persons help who are willing to put this on THEIR web site in a downloadable zip file. I don’t have the time to email this file to everyone. I don’t know how to edit my web site to place it in a spot it can be downloaded. It shouldn’t be on my website anyway.
I have started on the CorelDraw Default CMYK Palette, but it won’t be ready any time soon!
Let me know via this thread if you would be willing to help share the file with fellow letterheads
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Let me do a little research, I don't mind helping you- how large is the file? One option is to create a Dropbox account and folder- the file would be stored there- then just copy the link and people could just download it from the Dropbox- if you are just providing it for free...
I don't mind helping you get that set up, or set it up for you...
I have a PMS chart from Lamar Advertising for when I design billboards for them- it is just a small printed chart, but it helps a bunch, so I could see where this could be useful.
Let me know if I can help
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It may be there are not that many who could use this file here in Letterville and it wouldn't be as big an effort to just email the file to those that would like it.
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I think it is a good effort, and a good idea that would be useful to some folks- I don't use RGB palettes, mainly CMYK or PMS because of the print projects that I do require those palettes. For those that use RGB- I think it is a useful tool.
It appears to be a small file, but putting it on a location like Dropbox or Box, and just making it available for download would be my suggestion.
If you don't have either of those services, let me know and I'll send you an invitation (that puts extra storage space on both accounts)
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