GRACoL defines commercial printing characterization data

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Alexandria, Virginia, August 8, 2002 -- GRACoL (General Requirements for Application in Commercial Offset Lithography), a publication initiative of IDEAlliance, announced today that an agreement with CGATS, (Committee on Graphic Arts Technical Standards), has been reached to finalize colour aims for commercial offset printing. These aims will take the form of colour characterization data relating all input combinations of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black dot percentages to output CIELab colours that a "standard commercial press" should produce for each of these sets of input values. This follows the successful format developed by SWOP (Specifications for Web Offset Publications) and CGATS for printing, certifying and measuring publication press sheets on grade 5 papers as documented in CGATS Technical Report TR 001. ...cont´d

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