Re: GATF colour management conference
Re: GATF colour management conference
- Subject: Re: GATF colour management conference
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:14:44 +0100
Jo Euler wrote:
Well indeed I'm still thinking of trying it once again after I had to
cancel my participation last year due to heavy business.
Just kidding, but seriously, though:
Last year David had a point when he said about the concept of a
certification program offered by an institution, that actually
institutions aren't very effective at spreading information, because
they live by marketing information, and by so doing they also limit
its distribution (OK, this is from memory).
I think the attendance you reported was 150 people at the GATF event
last year. That is only a fraction of the attendance of this List
every day of the week. And if I think of educationalists in this web
medium, I think of Phil Green who writes excellent posts full of
information. But if I think of others, then it's not crowded out
there. One reason might be fear that exposing ignorance will
depreciate the market value of one's educational services. Pretty
much like in the old days back in school where those who were overly
selfconscious about making pronunciation errors took longer to learn
foreign languages. IMO the only sensible attitude in color as in any
other area of learning is to pile in and take any knocks that come
one's way in order to absorb and understand.
Is there nothing good about the concept of an ICC driver's licence,
the way Ken Applebaum thought there was?
Yes, there is.
You've got to get people started somewhere. And you've got to give
them something for that in order to make others listen to them. You
can call it a marketing ploy, and it is that, too. But it also means
that in a big organization such as a newspaper, somebody holds the
reins, because color management doesn't work if you build a profile
for the press, something goes wrong, and then both the press op, the
scanner op and the layout op all make corrections independently of
each other and at the same time. The concept of an ICC driver's
licence doesn't mean the person who holds the reins is an expert, or
has a full and complete understanding after a three day course, but
it does mean that you have a framework for process control to feed
adjustments and information into.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark