IMSAI chassis color/texture... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Apr 2015

Hi Bill,
Screens, and the like (projectors etc), use a different color theory from pigments such as
paint. One is additive color theory, the other is subtractive. You will be hard pressed to
find a match between the two. 

I?ll forward you and Al a photo showing the 7690 pantone chip places on my IMSAI case as a
side by side comparison. Color-wise, it?s almost a perfect match.

Phil

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  On Apr 25, 2015, at 2:50 AM, Bill Sudbrink
<wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:

 Al Kossow wrote
  On 4/24/15 1:22 AM, Philip Lord wrote:

https://365pantone.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/pantone-7690/

 It's not the color so much as correctly duplicating the texture.  
 Exactly.  I'm talking with a couple of local (to me) paint shops.
 They all have high tech color scanning and can scan my good chassis
 for the color.  The debate over whether the texture was accomplished
 by some kind of powder coating or air brushing is the big thing.  The
 original documentation talks about "IBM Blue" which is also a pantone
 color.  Neither look "right" to me... on my computer screen anyway.
 I have not seen an actual paint chip.

 Bill S.