Re: TR001 and GRACol
Re: TR001 and GRACol
- Subject: Re: TR001 and GRACol
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:10:12 -0800
In a message dated 3/13/06 12:44 AM, Ray Maxwell wrote:
> Hi Faro,
>
> TR001 is not a standard. It is a report giving colormeteric (CIELAB)
> data taken from an early run that was sactioned by the SWOP
> organization. SWOP is not a standard as well. It is just a document
> that suggest "best practices". SWOP is for the publications printing
> business.
>
> GRACOL is a "best practices" document for the commercial printing
> business. They are still working on establishing a colormetric report
> like TR001. The last time I heard anything about there press runs, they
> planned to call it TR004.
>
> SNAP is a "best practices" document for the newpaper printing industy.
>
> SNAP, GRACOL, and SWOP. No, this is not a joke.
Hi Ray.
This is informative and good to keep in mind, but "best practices" is a bit
of a mouthful, and "suggestions" doesn't sound much better, unfortunately.
Seems to me that people can be forgiven if they refer to these "suggestions"
as "standards" instead, since they do seem to function as standards of sorts
in the absence of any clearly established ones. "SWOP-Certified", for
example, may be debatable as a concept from a strictly-defined viewpoint,
but it does help many people understand each other's needs a little better,
for the time being.
I'm all for precision, but sometimes one can tolerate a bit of "loose talk",
so to speak, for the sake of being practical, don't you think?
Regards.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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