Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
- Subject: Re: The AmeriCentric unicorn
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:58:31 EST
In a message dated 3/13/02 4:56:37 AM, email@hidden writes:
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As FOGRA politely points out, 'EuroStandard' is just Adobe's in-house
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term for ISO 12647-2.
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There is no such beast in the wide world as 'EuroStandard'.
Correct, the term is EuroScale...
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It is a
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US myth created by a US notion that the printing world is the world
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of SWOP, and for the remainder somehow only regional names apply,
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hence 'EuroStandard' and I guess what sometimes crops up in my system
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ICC profiles folder as 'Japan'.
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.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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