2009/1/26 Dave Neary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dneary@free.fr">dneary@free.fr</a>></span><br> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> Jon Phillips wrote:<br> > Anyway, Pantone has a MONOPOLY on COLOR. That is kind of amazing right?<br> <br> </div>Actually, they don't. They have overwhelming mindshare with both<br> printers and graphic designers, sure, but they're not alone in the<br> market, there are several other ink producers who also publish<br> swatchbooks and try to sell their products to graphics programmes.</blockquote><div><br> Hi,<br> <br> The only tiny nuance I would add here is Pantone and the like are not Ť ink producers ť as such. They produce swatches, references, profiles, but not the actual inks.<br> <br> For more on inks, here a 2 sites (there are others) from Ink manufacturers association (US and Canada)<br> <br> <a href="http://www.napim.org/">http://www.napim.org/</a><br> <a href="http://www.cpima.org/">http://www.cpima.org/</a><br> <br> If an organisation is close to a monopoly on colors and inks, it's Sun Chemical.<br> <a href="http://www.sunchemical.com/">http://www.sunchemical.com/</a><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.seyboldreport.com/the-seybold-report">http://www.seyboldreport.com/the-seybold-report</a><br> <br> Cheers!<br> <br> Louis<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br> Here's one, for example: <a href="http://www.gotcs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gotcs.com/</a><br> This is one too: <a href="http://www.qualux.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.qualux.com/index.html</a><br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> Cheers,<br> Dave.<br> <br> --<br> Dave Neary<br> <a href="mailto:dneary@free.fr">dneary@free.fr</a><br> Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45<br> Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13<br> _______________________________________________<br> </div><div><div class="Wj3C7c">CREATE mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div>