: Why is my color being darkened when printed? I am creating a logo and I am using Pantone 638U in Illustrator. I know Pantone has to be premixed but I just wanted to test print on my printer

@RJPawlick971

There are a few issues here:


Pantone colors are spot colors. They are custom mixes. Not every Pantone color can be replicated in CMYK. As such, there will be a shift when converting from Pantone to CMYK.
Screens are projected light. Ink is reflective light. Screens and Ink can't replicate all the same colors. So what you see on screen isn't always what you will see on press.
Your screen may not be calibrated to make even a close approximation of what you'd see in print. Few are.

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