Matching up photo lab with digital press?

I had a sample card made at local photo lab displaying a few Pantone colors in RGB. Is it fair to match that to a reliable print?

Thank you for your help!

 

It depends on the colors you use. The CMYK gamut can only print ~50-60% of pantone colors. Laser digitial presses don't run custom pantone spot colors but you could have it done on an indigo if you must have a pantone color that can't be reproduced close enough with CMYK process inks. As far as matching, RGB is a wider color space than CMYK but it's important that the photo lab is not "enhancing" your job as they may with their standard workflow for the general public to auto-adjust tones to make snapshots look more pleasing (but possibly throwing off your pantone match there too even if it is within that machine's color gamut)