Steve Weisbrod <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>But! Purple is the color of Royalty..... and who else would by the "King of
>Image"?
>
>Besides, I went out at lunchtime today (a beautiful, sunny, Autumn day) and
>asked fourteen people (I was going to ask 20, but...) who just happened to
>pass by about the color of the Adager Cube I had with me.
>
>Me: "Excuse me, can you tell me the color of this purple cube?"
                                                   ^^^^^^
Your tactics sound dangerously close to those used by (old-school) HP sales
people in the early 80s, when they would tell their prospective HP3000
customers (particularly those who specifically asked for an HP3000) "What
you really want is an HP9000".  Fortunately, that's a thing of the past.


>13 of the 14 passers-by: "It's Purple"
>
>The 14th person responded: "Hey! Thats an Adager Cube" and he snatched it
>out of my hand and ran off :-(

A replacement is coming up your way :-)


>Anyway, My highly scientific independent survey suggests that the Adager
>Cube is considered to be Purple by the man (person) on the street.

Ok, Ok.  Perhaps on the 3 PAPER sides (which absorb ink rather miserably
because each page is perpendicular to the inking mechanism).  But how about
the GLUE side?  (Mmmm...  Did you have THAT side covered with your hand
during your highly scientific independent survey?...  I have seen this sort
of thing happen during the highly scientific independent surveys that
previous HP Managers used to convince THEIR managers...)

I'll definitely work on improving the "paper" side of the cubes.  Please
understand that those Adager MemoCubes were specified by a professional
agency WAY BEFORE I began using spiffy Macs with ColorSynch (and even
before PostScript saw the light of day).

Jerry Fochtman asked for a distinguishing characteristic for the NEW Adager
MemoCube.  It's going to be a nice "Adager" color on all sides, if we can
convince the inking mechanisms to respect my PostScript specifications...



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