Industry standard ISO 12647-2: 2013 has been updated, which means major changes in printing, proofing and measuring devices. Australia’s largest provider of proofing solutions to the industry DES says it is now completely set up to assist existing and new customers to manage this important change to their workflows. Russell Cavenagh, sales and marketing director at DES says, “Our proofing Medias have recently been recertified to the Fogra 51 standard and both CGS and EFI have updated their Proofing Rips with the new standards.
Changes: DES ready for new ISO upgrades
“In addition we are pleased to announce a 20% off promotion on all X-Rite for new spectrophotometers (that read in M0, 1, 2 and 3) between now and Christmas to help users manage the investment required to measure to the new standards”. All this is due to the new and added paper classifications for closer proof matching, new CIElab target values for primary solids, and new curves for tone value increase. Part of the updates to ISO 12647-2: 2013 is new characterisation data (Fogra51, Fogra52) to allow for the OBA (optical brightening agents) content in the printing stocks. The complete list of the changes are:-
- New prepress and proofing specifications
- New tone curves for the printing process
- Changes to measurement technology with spectrophotometers devices now requiring to be able to read in M0, 1, 2 & 3 instead of just the old M0 standard.
- New ICC-profiles
- New reference printing conditions
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