Re: ECI/Fogra/BVDM/IFRA documentation on standards
Re: ECI/Fogra/BVDM/IFRA documentation on standards
- Subject: Re: ECI/Fogra/BVDM/IFRA documentation on standards
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:52:04 -0500
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Darrian Young wrote on November 27, 2003:
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>> Chris Cox (Adobe) wrote:
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>> If the standards or the FOGRA data have changed dramatically since we
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>> made the profiles, we would, of course, appreciate someone notifying
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>> us about the change.<<
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> You might want to contact the folks at ECI who are very active in
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> doing much of the standardization work.
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> Regards. Darrian Young
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> MGV Color
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In Germany there is a close cooperation between the BVDM (German
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Association of Printers and PrePress companies), ECI (European Colour
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Initiative), Fogra/Ugra (Research on Printing and Media) and IFRA
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(International Research on Publishing and Printing for Newspapers). They
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release the combination of standards for profiles, proofing, printing, ink,
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measurements and quality.
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Within short (2004) they will make available complete sets of digital and
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printed information (included test charts and printed results based on ISO
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12647-2 and 3 and 2846-1 and 2) for German and international printers.
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The Altona test suite is part of that package.
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Please also see www.altonatestsuite.com english version, for more information.
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It looks that the Germans are far better understanding why the ISO
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standards for ink and printing (combined with guidelines how to reach the
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goals) will benefit all printers willing to exploit the goodies of PDF/X,
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ICC-workflows in an international setting.
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It looks that all other European partners are willing to follow them. And
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even non-Europeans!!
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Some contributors to this community expected that those ECI/Fogra tests
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only would benefit the evangelists (and users) of PDF/X-3.
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In my opinion using these standards will benefit all printers even if they
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don't (yet) use PSF/X or it's derivated Certified PDF.
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Any comments?
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Regards, Henk
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Absolutely agree!
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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