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    2 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Colors, Swatches, Patterns  ·  Admin →
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    Tom Bean commented  · 

    It silly that Illustrator only supports whole integer numbers in the Lab color space. just a half a percent can cause brand colors to shift when printing , esp in grey , neutral colors. Just in CMYK format, a 1% shift in any color can cause a grey color go from matching to not. When forcing an Lab spot color to round up or down across the 3 axis of Lab, it can compound the Delta E of the color to shift away from being in tolerance to being out of tolerance just in a small space and can make matching difficult. In todays world, with hand held spectrometers and online digital color books, and powerful RIPs that support decimal placing, a half degree can make all the difference color precision especially in the digital, grand format printing

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