Re: British Publications & ISO Standards
Re: British Publications & ISO Standards
- Subject: Re: British Publications & ISO Standards
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:24:17 +0000
On 13 Feb 2007, at 10:43, Bob Marchant wrote:
It seems that it's not only the publications that don't seem to
have noticed.
A large part of the community that managed to find the time to
criticise the PPA approach to proofing and separation profiles
haven't been as quick or vocal in their support for the move .
A shame that. And the reason that I thought I'd mention it. I've
always been very vocal in my criticisms of "standards" that are
guided by manufacturers like DuPont and Agfa et al - because they are
very rarely beneficial to those of us who want openly understood
quality standards.
I think that, outside of Proof4Press, the PPA did excellent work -
especially those people (like you) who were prepared to represent the
interests of creatives. Let's not kid ourselves, the industry players
were there to maintain their dominance in prepress and press hardware/
software.
The documentation for Pass4Press and Pic4Press were excellent because
they were clear, concise and provided relatively independent advice
about production methods and concept of "best practice".
I wholeheartedly support the move to ISO and would also add my
support to any further moves that increase the skills and knowledge
of the people at the publications who deal with the data and proofs
that we supply them. And support anything that moves them away from
the "approval by logo recognition" that has dominated since people
got fed up with fiddling about with Brunner strips on analogue Cromalin.
Or, in fact , to provide any support for what is essentially the
only specific set of best practice guidelines for the majority of
the magazine publishing industry in the UK . Much the same goes
for those who supported the original status quo.
Maybe the publications would take more notice if more of the
industry got off their collective backsides and did a little more
for the benefit of the whole rather than the protection of the
few :-) .
I can't see it happening any time soon. Ignorance is saving them
money. They don't need to train their staff in colour management or
press control. If somebody asks for a profile now they can mumble
something about ISO before reading the bit from the card in front of
them that says:
"And we'll need a Digital Cromalin proof on DP10G using the DP Euro
offset gloss curve"
Best practice the DuPont way...
--
Martin Orpen
<http://www.idea-digital.com/>
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