I am a freelance designer for a small family owned company and I do designs that are eventually printed on a Roland Digital printer and sublimated onto fabric.
At the moment, we use two sets of swatches for all the colours printed. One for proofing, so that the colours look good on screen and in PDF proofs and one for output so that the Roland printers will print how it looks like on the proof because unfortunately digital printers don't always print the colour as it looks on screen/pdf.
When a job is approved, I have to manually go through all the colours in the job and swap the swatch with its output version and resave the file as an output version. (ie. BK-55 (our swatch name for proof version of black) to BK-55 R (our swatch name for Roland version of black))
I was wondering if there would be an easy script to run that could look through every swatch in the job and automatically swap it for its output counterpart either by two methods.
1. Just outright swapping the swatch for its named R version from two different swatch books we have.
or
2. Going through each swatch in the job, changing the values to the output (roland) values and renaming it with an R on the end of the swatch name. Of course getting the new values from either an xml or excel file where we would store the values for easy change. (we commonly change the values frequently as things like humidity, heat, time of year can drastically effect the final colour once sublimated)
Hope I have provided enough detail.
Thanks
Chad