Standards, Specifications.. and user groups

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Standards, Specifications.. and user groups

• More groups than there are standards..

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Confused I am
Printing Across Borders
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Standards Groups Mind Map orDeath by Acronym
USER
XML/ Workflow
PaPiNet
ADSML
IPA
NGP
PRISM
APPA
Ansi/Cgats
CIP4
PPA
ICC
BPIF
PIRA
PIA

• DAL uk

DDAP
ASA
ISO
DAL US
Bridges
ECI
SWOP
SNAP
FIPP
Ghent Work Grp
UGRA
GraCol
ERotogravure Assoc
FOGRA
DISC
AOP
PAB
IdeAlliance
USA
EUROPE
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Broken into 3 or 4 sections

• Print Standards/ Specification Organisations
• Print Characterisation Bodies
• User Groups
• Grey Areas (other interested parties)

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Standards Organisations

• ISO - International Standards Organisation
• SNAP - Specification for Newspaper Advertising
  Production
• SWOP - Specification for Web Offset Printing
• Ansi/Cgats - American National Standards
  Institute / Committee for Graphic Arts Technical
  Standards
• FOGRA - FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT DRUCK E.V ?

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Print Characterisation Bodies

• ICC International Colour Consortium
• GraCol General Requirements for Applications in
  Commercial Offset Lithography
• ECI/GWG European Colour Initiative/ Ghent Work
  Group
• Euro Rotogravure Assoc.
• CGATS TR001
• PAB Printing Across Boarders

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User Groups

• DAL UK / DAL- US
• PPA Periodical Publishers Association
• APPA Advertising Pre Press Association
• DDAP Digital Delivery Advertising Practicioners
  (Idea Alliance)
• E Rotogravure Assoc
• IPA Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
• NPES Association for the Suppliers of Printing,
  Publishing and Converting Technology

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Other Interested Parties

• Workflow and Interface
• - CIP4 / NGP/ ADSML/ Papinet/PRISM
• Photographers
• DISC Digital Image Submission Criteria
  (IdeAlliance)
• AOP Association Of Photographers
• Industry Research Bodies
• PIRA/ GATF/ FOGRA
• IFRA - INCA-FIEJ Research Association
• Industry Bodies
• BPIF/ Pride in Print/ PrintIT and their
  equivalents

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What is Happening in the Groups?

• Like printers There are too many
• The result. Consolidation
• Many are struggling financially- most rely on
  Volunteers
• IdeAlliance USA consolidation
• SWOP, DAL US, SNAP, GraCol, DISC
• PAB consolidation of Ideas across borders
• Stop re-inventing wheel

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Pass4Press, Proof4Press

• Debate on what profile to use
• Interim steps
• UK specific
• Discussion ongoing with other groups

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GraCol

• Move away from Density and Dot gain to
  Spectrophotometric measurement of Grey and Solids
• New Calibration process for Print
• May influence ISO 12647 significantly
• Still in discussion stage!

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PAB

• Great New Initiative
• Global Print Quality Standard
• Standard ICC profiles
• Lots of debate about how to achieve this without
  going to the lowest common denominator
• Many Countries Represented Japan, South
  Americas, India etc
• Meeting at IPEX- Sunday, April 9, 2006 - 1400 -
  1630

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Does that Make it Clearer?

• NO..
• Good !
• Keep coming to DAL hopefully it will !!!