[CREATE] Open Colour Standard(s) and LGM

[Jon Phillips]

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
<christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> 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
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