Custom Color for Business Cards

[Villager5]

I'm hoping that someone can help me. I'm a web designer, so my familiarity with print is pretty basic and I was charged with getting business cards printed for the company I work for. The design (created by a print designer) consists of three different blues on a black background with white text. These blues were designed in RGB and there is no pantone color that matches. The designer says that to achieve the desired effect, I need to get a custom color mixed by combining a pantone blue with neon, but I've been getting different answers from the various printers that I've spoken with as to the feasibility of this. One said that it was "ludicrous and idiotic" to mix a color, while another keeps insisting that a pantone color will fit and that mixing neon (he says the correct term is "Flourescent") won't have any effect on the color. I'm not sure why this has become so complicated and if anyone has any advice, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!!

[blueocto]

The only thing I would do is use Photoshop to 'pick' the colour I want and use the Pantone library to make the closet match?
If you post up the colours/image I can show you what I mean

[Villager5]

Thanks for your reply. There is no pantone color that matches exactly what my boss wants. I've attached the diagram of the cards. Is there no way to custom-create a color if its simply adding a neon to a pantone?

[blueocto]

I would make three gradients with these Pantone solid coated colours

arrow one - 2707c | white | 2707 c
arrow two - 292 c | white | 292 c
arrow three - 2925 c | white | 2925 c

[doubting_thomas]

Use 0% of a spot color instead of white. It'll work in a wider
variety of work flows that way when being printed. Should be a
2 color job if going offset, but if a Pantone match can't be
established, 4 color process could be used. By the way,
printers don't use "neon" as a spot color, which could
account for some of your answers.

[WPQ]

What I would do is go to your printer and let them know what you are trying to achieve. They should then go to their ink company to make you an ink draw down. Ink companies can and do make special ink colors.