Is the paper white Lab a must?

[gordo]

I just like the word "hooey"...I needed an excuse to use it.

LOL - I waited years - decades actually - to use the word "pitiful" after hearing it spoken by Bruce Dern in the 1966 movie "Wild Angels". Some things just stick in the brain like that.

best, gordo

[Magnus]

So...

When are the ISO-guys going change the standard so that it matches with our reality? It would result in less confusion.

How hard can it be to change the b-value to -5 (or even better 96 1 -5)

[meddington]

So...

When are the ISO-guys going change the standard so that it matches with our reality? It would result in less confusion.

How hard can it be to change the b-value to -5 (or even better 96 1 -5)

Easy on the surface...but slooow going when dealing with an international standard.

[rich apollo]

As if any of this nonsense matters in reality. I think customers and printers alike get pressured into thinking they need to comply with all this standardization. Amazing how such solid standards change so often. It's all relative...do i care if my box of Cheerios from Shop Rite doesn't look exactly the same as the one from Walgreens? Do I ever see them next to each other? It's all a bunch of hooey.

I was of the same mindset at one time. A friend of mine who did catalog work for LL Bean put the idea into dollars and cents for me. At the time, LL Bean showed a 25% return rate on products sold. Of those items returned, 90% were returned for reasons relating to color. I hope I'm remembering the numbers correctly. And I hope no one from LL Bean will mind my using their name in the context of this conversation.