Hi team

I am not a dev person, but I posted to a company today that I thought could be a good potential partner for opensource graphic application developers. The are an international printing ink manufacturer. Much respected in the printing sector and who do have an alternative colour matching system integrated into proprietory software at this time. As they are not the primary colour matching system used in that market I thought they might be interested in what could happen if they partner with open source tech. Anyway my 2 messages are included below in reverse order. Top one is to Kylie in Melbourne, Bottom one was sent first, through their website form.

I am trying to make sure that I am letting the developers know what I posted. These messages were posted by me as an individual and are not intended to represent the opinion of any group, but I hope that they will make it possible for Toyo to check out open source and see if its something they can participate in.

All the best

Janet

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Libre Graphics Meeting, 17, 18 and 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:43:06 +1030 From: Janet Hawtin <lucychili@...1211...> Reply-To: lucychili@...1211... To: reception@...1212...

Kylie

Following up from the phonecall this afternoon:

Possible opportunity for Toyo Inks with open source software.

A colour matching system such as colourfinder, if open sourced, could be included in this emerging sector of software. http://www.toyoink.com/products/colorfinder.asp

Toyo has top quality ink and so this could be a way to get designers using the full gamut of your colour range as they would be specifying using your swatches and colour matching system.

Here is the link to the event where open source developers and graphic designers from around the world will be meeting in France:

http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

The first Libre Graphics Meeting will be held on 17, 18 and 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France in the Ecole d'Ingénieurs CPE on the university campus at La Doua, Villeurbanne.

Here is a copy of the message that I sent to Toyo Japan:

Dear Toyo Inks

I am a graphic designer who is making the shift from proprietory software to open source software. One of the challenges faced by the developers of open source software is that Pantone colour matching is proprietory and so can not be integrated into open source software.

I remembered getting a swatch set of your inks, the colours were lovely and thought I would contact you to see if you would be interested in becoming the open source community's default colour matching group.

I know the Free Software Foundation is very active in Japan, and I am sure that in the long run this could provide and exciting opportunity both for open source software such as Gimp and InkScape as well as for Toyo inks as they become the ink colour that people specify in their artwork.

Hope this idea is useful.

All the best.

Janet