CYMK & Pantone do not match RGB Colors?

[pabbie33]

I have a brochure that I am doing up. I chose a color pallette to use which
includes mainly 5 colors. THey are vibrant and lively, my vision. A printer
told me that they needed to be converted to CYMK or Pantone colors in order
for him to print them. Now when he does a test print, after changing the
colors to Pantone...he loses the beautiful vibrant RGB color and it is
replaced with the closest match which is a dull not even close match to the
original RGB color. Same goes with the CYMK. I am using PUBLISHER.....if
this is the way it has to be then I am very disappointed because I chose
these colors using PUBLISHER. Now if RGB colors can not be printed without a
shred of accuracy then they should not be included in a program that is
mainly used for publication. Can anyone help me?

 

[Terje Martinsen]

The answer is, they never will.
Has nothing to do with Publisher.
The "color room" for RGB and CMYK are quite different, and those vigrant
colors will never reproduce.
The main problems lies with blue and red, in my experience.

The only way to reproduce clean colors is by using spot colors, which is not
an option in your case.

Regards Terje

 

[Terje Martinsen]

One addition to my reply:

You have probably edited your document in RGB mode, and therefore hav access
to all color models.
Change your setup (Tools) to CMYK, and your screen will "almost" show the
colors you can select.

regards Terje