This is great great news!!!! great work! jon and ginger where are things at? Good to have a public face up to solidify with others the plan.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Christoph Schäfer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > At least for those who are interested in commercial printing I have good news. > > I have been contacted by a manager of one of largest ink producers of the > world. The company is currently developing a new colour matching system for > printing. The system is different from Pantone or Toyo in that it connects > CMYK values to a particular colour profile (but it also contains alternative > L*a*b values). They will offer the colour palettes at no charge, probably > also under an open license, but on the condition that modified palettes be > distributed only on the condition that any reference to the company or the > CMS be removed, as changing the values or names would defy the purpose of a > standard. > > After some back and forth via email, the manager also suggested the creation > of an Open Colour Standard for printing. He suggested 30--50 base colours, > which would result in about 1200 tints. The company would participate in an > open process that will lead to the creation of the standard and then print > and distribute the colour fans (and the ink, of course) for different > printing processes. > > The major advantage is that the vendor has absolutely no interest in revenue > from licensing "intellectual property", but is focussed on selling inks and > printing utilities, like cleaning chemicals or colour fans instead. > > Finally, the guy is eager to attend LGM and discuss all the details with us in > Brussels :) > > I invited him to join the #lgm channel and, of course, to subscribe to this > mailing list. > > > Cheers, > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from Doha, Qatar _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
