This is all good to know. So I take it then, no demand then for the openswatchbook :(
Jon On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Louis Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/26 Dave Neary <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, >> >> Jon Phillips wrote: >> > Anyway, Pantone has a MONOPOLY on COLOR. That is kind of amazing right? >> >> Actually, they don't. They have overwhelming mindshare with both >> printers and graphic designers, sure, but they're not alone in the >> market, there are several other ink producers who also publish >> swatchbooks and try to sell their products to graphics programmes. > > Hi, > > The only tiny nuance I would add here is Pantone and the like are not « ink > producers » as such. They produce swatches, references, profiles, but not > the actual inks. > > For more on inks, here a 2 sites (there are others) from Ink manufacturers > association (US and Canada) > > http://www.napim.org/ > http://www.cpima.org/ > > If an organisation is close to a monopoly on colors and inks, it's Sun > Chemical. > http://www.sunchemical.com/ > > I am not too sure there will be a long debate on whether Pantone will or not > accept one day to work closely with LGM projects on swatches especially > after the review published this month in The Seybold Report about Scribus. I > suspect more of those reviews will come at their time. > > http://www.seyboldreport.com/the-seybold-report > > Cheers! > > Louis >> >> >> Here's one, for example: http://www.gotcs.com/ >> This is one too: http://www.qualux.com/index.html >> >> Cheers, >> Dave. >> >> -- >> Dave Neary >> [email protected] >> Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 >> Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 >> _______________________________________________ >> CREATE mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
