It was a session on colour proofing systems by Suresh Gupta in 2002. Today, Suresh Gupta is in the news for the sale of 18.84 lakh equity shares on 21 February 2014. As Paper Products' Indian promoter, Gupta, sold 3.01% equity, of Paper Products in an off-market transaction to Huhtavefa BV through a negotiated private placement at an aggregate amount of Rs 35.81 crore.

But that is now, my notes are about Paper Products in 2002.

Even then, Paper Products offered a portfolio of packaging solutions that included flexible packaging, labeling technologies and specialised cartons.

According to my notes, Suresh Gupta, said three things in 2002:

- There are no global standards that can attain accuracy in digital proofing for packaging

- Pantone with 60 pages are too few; and the shades are very different for coated films and uncoated foils

- Matching colour is an Alice in the Wonderland experience; since none of the three process magenta shades tend to match; nor do the inks from two different companies; nor do two Pantone books.

Alice in the Wonderland of colour
In this children's book by Lewis Carroll, which is a little gem, we have the instance of the red queen, who is running (almost all the time) yet getting no where.