Actually, after my previous enthusiasm, I've come up with a little sober second thought. Questions: Their goal is to sell ink and fan books. They're developing the ink. How can we expect them to deal with that ink? I'll take it for granted that they won't look kindly on other ink companies trying to make the exact same colours, in order to be in compliance with a hypothetical Open Colour Standard. Or am I wrong in thinking that? As for fan books, if they're manufacturing them, how will they deal with other people (independent print shops, for example) who may want to print their own? Will it be officially sanctioned or not? Those are my two immediate questions. I don't want to be a killjoy, because I am excited about this, but I just want to make sure that we get a colour standard that's open in a physical as well as a digital sense. -- ginger coons <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca">adaptstudio.ca</a> 514.213.1318 (Montreal) 647.865.7757 (Toronto) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:13 AM, ginger coons <<a href="mailto:ginger@adaptstudio.ca">ginger@adaptstudio.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That's excellent news! I do believe it makes much of my work obsolete. Neat. Christoph, this is incredibly exciting. One question: in the case of modified colours, where the company doesn't want its name used, does that mean not even being able to make reference to the inks required to print the given colour?<div class="im"> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">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. </blockquote> </div>As for their take on an Open Colour Standard, I'm curious to see what sort of process they're interested in using to open up the tint creation process.<div class="im"> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> Finally, the guy is eager to attend LGM and discuss all the details with us in Brussels :) </blockquote> </div>Looking forward to meeting this guy in Brussels. -- ginger coons <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca" target="_blank">adaptstudio.ca</a> 514.213.1318 (Montreal) 647.865.7757 (Toronto) </blockquote></div>