Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
- Subject: Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:30:15 +0100
David wrote:
There is no such beast in the wide world as 'EuroStandard'.
Correct, the term is EuroScale...
Well, it was under the letter 'E', and up to 'S' I was actually OK,
right ? ... -:).
Okay, EuroScale may be an AmeriCentric title for ISO 12647-2, but your idea
that JapanStandard is just another name for the same thing (wouldn't it be
less elitist to call it AsiaStandard?) does not make sense, as the profiles
for the two contain differing ink colors.
Got a little carried away with a the nice semiotic deconstruction of
printing standards. But I still think the basic analysis is right,
there is an unarticulated concept floating around that there is one
and only one printing standard, and the rest is what the natives do
in distant parts of the world, so best label those other practices by
the general anthropological region in which they have been observed.
The problem with this is that it isn't helping the move to a concept
of the printing process as a device independent target. So I take
stabs at the 'SWOP is the standard' notion from time to time to see
if I can find an angle that opens cracks in the perception of what
targetting a press comes to.
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