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Listing of the most important ISO Norms for "Process Management Offset under ISO 9001: 2000":
ISO 12647: 1996-2002
Process Control for the Manufacture of Halftone Colour Separations, Proofs and Production Prints:
ISO 12647 - 1 Parameters and Measurement Methods
ISO 12647 - 2 Offset Processes
ISO 12647 - 3 Coldset Offset and Letterpress on Newsprint Processes
ISO 12647 - 4 Photogravure Processes
ISO 12647 - 5 Screen Printing Processes
ISO 12647 - 6 Flexographic Printing Processes
ISO 12647 - 7 Digital Printing
ISO 12648: 2003
Safety requirements for printing press sistems
ISO 12218: 1997
Process Control - Offset Platemaking
ISO 13655: 1996
Spectral Measurement and Colorimetric Computation for Graphic Arts Images.
ISO 12640: 1996
Prepress Digital Data Exchange - Standard Input Data of 4-Colour Images (CMYK/SCID)
ISO 12641: 1997
Colour Targets for Input Scanner Calibration (IT 8/7.2)
ISO 12642: 1996
Prepress Digital Data Exchange - Input Data for Characterization of 4-Colour Process Printing (Digital Prepress Calibration Standards, Colour Space Conversions, RGB Input, CMYK Output, CIE LAB, ICC Profiles, IT 8/7.3)
ISO 12646: 2000
Prepress Digital Data Exchange - Monitor Colour Proofing
ISO 15076-1:2005
Image technology colour management � Architecture, profile format and data structure � Part 1: Based on ICC.1:2004-10
ISO 15930: 2002
Specifications of PDF/X format
ISO 15930-3 PDF/X-3 (RGB)
ISO 15930-1a PDF/X-1a (CMYK, special colours)
ISO 15930-2 PDF/X-2 (text separated from images)
ISO 16536: 1995
Density Measuring Standards and Evaluation
ISO 16527-3: 1996
Definition of Normal Inking and Printcontrast
ISO 12645: 1998
PSD Standard for transmissive Densitometers and CtP measuring Devices, Film and Plate Density Standards
ISO 12644 (was DIN 16515 Euroscale Inks): 1996
Determination of Rheological Properties of Paste Inks and Vehicles by Falling Rod Viscometer
(Larrey Viscometer)
ISO 2846-1 (was DIN 16539 Euroscale Inks): 1975
Specification for Colour and Transparency of Printing Ink Sets - Part 1: Sheet-Fed and Heat-Set Web Offset Lithographic Printing
ISO 2846-2
Specification for Colour and Transparency of Printing Ink Sets - Part 2: Coldset-Offset Newspaper Printing
ISO 2846-3
Specification for Colour and Transparency of Printing Ink Sets - Part 3: Rotogravure Printing
ISO 12636: 1996
Blankets for Offset Printing (Definition of Terms, Properties and Testing Methods)
ISO 3664: 1999
Viewing conditions for Graphic Technology and Photography
ISO 11798:1999
Information and documentation -- Permanence and durability of writing, printing and copying on paper -- Requirements and test methods
ISO 11800
Specifications for Book Design Dimensions
ISO 12649: 2004
Graphic Technology - Safety Requirements of Binding and Finishing Systems
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The Trends of Standards in the Field of Graphic Technology:
This info intends to introduce the standardization activities of ISO/TC130 (Graphic Technology). After introducing a little bit about ISO and the standardization activities of ISO/TC130 in the past decade, the modern flow of graphic systems on which the standards of ISO/TC130 are explained. The typical graphic system flow from an image capture stage, storage and transfer stage, gamut mapping and reproduction stage, and shows how the conversion of data files between adjacent stages is performed by using device profiles.
The ISO/TC130 standards discussed in WG2 (Prepress data exchange) are focused on these data flows.The four standardization items are as follows; 1) Measurement and environmental conditions (WG2, WG3), 2) Prepress data exchange and system evaluation tools (WG2), 3) Prepress process control and related metrology (WG3), 4) Media and materials (WG4).
In the TC130 area, the important areas of activity are characterization targets. The detail of input targets (ISO12641), output targets (ISO 12642) and SCID (ISO 12640) as already standardized. Proper colorimetric measurement procedures for graphic arts applications are the subject of ISO 13655. This is one exceptional standard where we have to develop a fundamental measurement standard because the CIE allows two geometries, two observers, and a variety of illuminants.
We also have standards for printing in color, how the process should be controlled, and what color you expect to have on different papers. Printing test was implemented by ANSI (USA), FOGRA (Germany) and Japanes committeee respectively to be referred to specifications for graphic art printing. The test results had provided the standard characterization data that allow us to develop device profiles in color reproducing systems.
Developing standards around color monitors and soft proofing and viewing conditions are work items of ISO/TC130. In conclusion, most of what goes on in ISO is application-specific. It is not fundamental color measurement, imaging etc.
What ISO/TC130 is concerned with is how to apply that fundamental work, done by others, in digitalized graphic arts industries. The objective of these standards is to meet specific commercial needs as robustly as possible. That is the underlying thought that the committeee members involved in the development of ISO standards wanted to have.
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