[CREATE] open colour wave ridden or not?

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:41:54 schrieb Jon Phillips:
> Interesting. The question I have is if our efforts are important and
> should be continued, and we should increase amount of energy put into
> open colour (and yes, we should keep brit spelling...love it!)
>
> Jon

Franz Schmid and I (both from Scribus) will meet a representative of a major 
ink vendor in January. Among the topics we want to discuss is an open colour 
standard, in which the vendor is definitely interested. I think I already 
mentioned that the vendor will attend LGM in Brussels and intends to discuss 
the issues with all interested parties. I can (and will) tell you more after 
the meeting in mid-January. One thing they already told me is that they think 
the notion of "numbers as intellectual property" is "absurd."

Cheers,

Christoph

>
> 2009/12/29 Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>:
> > Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:13:18 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Louis Desjardins <
> >>
> >> louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> wrote:
> >> > Pantone is not an ink manufacturer.
> >>
> >> Pantone, a division of XRite, most certainly produces inks, paints and
> >> more. I can tell you that their representative at the ICC speaks about
> >> their inks quite often during meetings...
> >
> > If Pantone produces inks, someone forgot to tell their webmaster ;)
> >
> > Pantone sells _paints_ produced by Fine Paints and _dyes_ produced by
> > Clariant, but no inks. Instead they have partnerships with ink
> > manufacturers around the world who get some of their inks certified by
> > Pantone.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Christoph
> >
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