Inking Outside the CMYK Realm

Pantone openly recommends an RGB workflow for Hexachrome users. Says Fannon, "The RGB workflow is becoming more and more accepted because of its efficiencies: wider color gamut, smaller file size, easier to achieve color, and less color correction because you're in that wider space. Also, there are more Photoshop tools in the RGB space than in CMYK. CMYK is a device-dependent color space, so for example, blacks and gray balances are generated specifically. With RGB it's easier to re-purpose files (for the Web, for example) because files are not output-device dependent."