[IPP] Media Color for MSN spec

[Petrie, Glen]

Mike

 

Thanks for jogging my memory on some of the more vivid colored media.  I
still not sure colorant and media with the same color name are the same
color.  I looked at these and others; most do not give rgb values and in
many cases a color name like "green" is used for several different
"green colored" media.   

 

As you stated in the last email "magenta colored media" is sold as
pink/fluorescent-pink.  So do we have magenta colorant and
pink/fluorescent-pink media; even thought they are the """"same""""
color.   Is there a "well-known" list of colored media names?

 

What I did not consider at the time was investigating the actual paper
manufactures (that would a shorter list) instead of distributor or
retailers.    Note that distributors and retailers give product
"interesting name" for selling/marketing purposes which increases the
problem.

 

Perhaps, as time, permits I can contact one or more manufactures to see
if can provide rgb values for the various colored and white media.
Short of that, I have a spectrometer that I could actually measure
samples to determine a media rgb value for each color media we decide to
list. 

 

I would hope any list for colorant is short(er) and fairly well known
even if there are variations in the actual rgb value of a specific
colorant color.

 

Glen

 

 

 

 

 

________________________________

From: Michael Sweet [mailto:msweet at apple.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:51 PM
To: Petrie, Glen
Cc: <ipp at pwg.org>
Subject: Re: [IPP] Media Color for MSN spec

 

All,

 

Here are some "reference" pages I pulled from a search on staples.com
for "colored paper"...

 

 

Solid paper colors which match up to what I'd expect for a colorant
color:

 

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-24-lb-Colored-Paper-Assorted-Colo
rs/product_733088

 

 

Solid paper colors which map to alternate colors, some of which match
what you might use for a colorant color (for purposes of UI...):

 

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Pastel-Colored-Copy-Paper-11-x-17-Assorte
d-Colors/product_679462

 

 

Neon colors:

 

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-24-lb-Colored-Paper-Neon-Assorted
/product_733097

 

 

And even within a single supplier, you'll find multiple products with
the same color name but vastly different actual colors:

 

            GREEN

 

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-Colored-Paper-8-1-2-x-11-Green-Re
am/product_490879

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-24-lb-Colored-Paper-Green/product
_733093

 

 

            ORANGE

 

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-Colored-Paper-8-1-2-x-11-Orange-R
eam/product_490881

 
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Brights-24-lb-Colored-Paper-Orange/produc
t_733086

 

 

Then there are names we don't have (again from the same Staples search
results for "colored paper"):

 

            bright white (synonym for current "white"?)

            canary

            cherry

            cream

            fuschia

            grape

            juniper

            lilac

            orchid

            purple

            salmon

            teal

 

Finally, there are the vendor adjectives ("Pulsar Pink", "Solar Yellow",
etc.), but I feel safe ignoring those for this spec... :)

 

__________________________________________________

Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

 


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