sometimes clients don't give me a pantone number for an ink color, they hand me something else to match, like a ribbon. this is no problem, because i am an ink mix master. as it turned out, the ribbon i was given was the perfect red, which i have found difficult to achieve. i found out recently (about 10 months after this triumphant day), this magical red i mixed is actually a pantone. but i thought of it myself, which makes me a genius ink mix master.