IMSAI chassis color/texture...

[Philip Lord]

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


 


> 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.
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