Re: Current Crop of US Reference Colorimetric Standards
Re: Current Crop of US Reference Colorimetric Standards
- Subject: Re: Current Crop of US Reference Colorimetric Standards
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:14:44 +0100
Roger,
As so often before, the problem is getting the right people talking
together (and maybe some missing pages in copied standards flowing
together -:)). I think your ColorSync Users List and PrintingColor
posts should be referenced to the ECI.
FOGRA has the chair of the standards which are relevant for ISO
12647. There are also people over here working on feeding criticism
into the ISO 12647 standard in order to improve it e.g. Jan-Peter
Homan.
Last and not least, the ECI list is mainly made up of very large
printing and publishing companies who have a direct interest in the
relevance of standards to their production workflows.
The ECI list tends to tackle one thread at a time, and if there is
need for it then an offline working group scratches its head, comes
to a conclusion and reports back. The CUL runs a thread, but often
the thread doesn't lead to a conclusion or a recommendation.
The goal has to be to maintain a single international standard with a
single international colorimetric reference set. This way we can
manage blind exchange of high gamut three channel documents using a
minimum of confusing output profiles as reference when soft-proofing
and proof-printing.
Could you compress the question set and take it to www.eci.org,
please? The ECI list will switch into English for you (I found
there's an automatic courtesy button on the keyboards as I don't
write German which makes the List assume I don't read German -:)).
I'm still fascinated by the differences between how things are done
here in Europe and over in the States (and Canada?). Over here
chartered accountants are subject to public control because they fill
a public function, but the Enron situation indicated that in the US
there doesn't seem to be such a control entity in place.
FOGRA was instrumental in getting the right people talking when it
became clear that closed loop color management systems would buckle
under the weight of desktop tools and out of this came the ICC. The
issue over colorimetrically defined standards-based printing is in
some ways the same because we often have to proof without knowing the
exact process to proof for and without a standard for printing the
ICC framework is incomplete.