I want to print out every color possible so it is easy to match when I need to print exact colors?

Question

I have a Canon i9900 printer, adobe photoshop and illustrator.
Please help!!

Answer 1

i hope you've plenty of ink and paper, there are over 16.7 million colours on a computer display so presumably the amount of printable colours will be equally insane.

i use the eyedropper tool to 'pick up' the exact colour of anything on the screen or from a scanned image. this has the added bonus that human eyes are less precise at matching colours than a computer.

Answer 2

sounds like you need pantone swatches to me. See if you can buy a used pantone swatch book on e-bay for cheap. Otherwise as the person above me stated, use the eye dropper.

Use the eye dropper in photoshop and write down the values for your color
C=99 M=20 Y=15 K=3
Then go in illustator and make a swatch with those colors

you can also go to Swatch Libraries in Illustrator (I think it is under "Window > Libraries > Swatch Libraries > pick one listed"), pick a color, write down what it is

then in photoshop double click on the forground color, and then click on custom and it will take you to photoshops pantone colors, just pick the same one you did in illustrator.

Message me if you need help ;)

Answer 3

With 16 million colors, if you print 2 colors per page, it would cost you approximately $48,000 for the paper and over $320,000 for the ink cartridges. Good luck with that.
Go with peekay's suggestion and use the eyedropper.