Are you doing 4-color printing of your business cards? Are there photos on it? If it's a typical business card, it should only have a couple of colors on the logo portion; just give them each color in B/W and specify "pantone blue" as the color for that layer.
When we do the music boosters newsletters, we give them a multiple-layer PDF and specify a pantone color for each layer. They use that to print a year's worth of blank newsletter front pages. Then when we have a new newsletter, we give them a PDF of just the text, to be printed black over the previously-printed blanks.
I thought business cards were usually printed the same way; the company had a hundred thousand cards printed with just the logo, then ordered a few hundred at a time per person with their specifics on it.
If you really are doing CYMK printed business cards, there is a CYMK plugin for Gimp.
I don't think I found any two sources online agree about what blue was, even "blue 072" had varying values.
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When we do the music boosters newsletters, we give them a multiple-layer PDF and specify a pantone color for each layer. They use that to print a year's worth of blank newsletter front pages. Then when we have a new newsletter, we give them a PDF of just the text, to be printed black over the previously-printed blanks.
I thought business cards were usually printed the same way; the company had a hundred thousand cards printed with just the logo, then ordered a few hundred at a time per person with their specifics on it.
If you really are doing CYMK printed business cards, there is a CYMK plugin for Gimp.
I don't think I found any two sources online agree about what blue was, even "blue 072" had varying values.
This may be useful:
http://www.benedict.edu/divisions/inseff/mis/pdf/web/bc_web_dev_pantone_color_bridge_cmyk_pc.pdf
Lists blue-072 as:
100C 85M 0Y 4K