[CREATE] Open Colour Standard(s) and LGM

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 11:31:17 schrieben Sie:
> 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.

Just thinking aloud as a preparation or future discussions with the colour 
company: Does anyone think that a model like ODF/OASIS would be the right 
framework for an open colour standard? It would allow for input from 
everyone: software projects/companies, commercial printers, ink vendors and 
whoever may be interested.

Also, so far we are only talking about an open colour standard for CMYK 
printing. There are other areas that need to be covered as well, like spot 
colours, perhaps a new set of web colours (w3c?), colours for RGB/PDF/X-3+ 
print workflows, colours for Office software (OASIS?), 
Hexa-/Septa-/Octachrome etc., and some of these definitely need 
vendor/manufacturer participation.

Anyway, these were just some thoughts, and having an industry partner to 
discuss the first steps is definitely a good start.

Cheers

Christoph