Only at the participants’ level can the Australian industry add its considerable knowledge to the mix, Kraushaar (pictured) told an industry briefing in Melbourne earlier this week.
The Melbourne dinner at the Novotel in Glen Waverley, the first of three events held in Australia this week, gave Kraushaar an opportunity to update invited guests on the latest trends in the standardisation and certification processes for printed colour.
Kraushaar, the head of FOGRA’s prepress division, was a guest of the Australian TC130, a joint venture of Printing Industries and the Lithographic Institute Association (LIA) which seeks to promote the implementation of international standards into the Australian market as a means of ensuring that the local graphic arts industry can compete on a global basis.
Kraushaar detailed ISO-12647, the standard for process control in halftone colour separations, proof and production prints, explaining various sections of the standard that pertain to sheetfed offset, coldset, gravure, contract proofing and validation printing.
Kraushaar also made the distinction between ‘process control’ itself and communicating colour standards between printers, which requires colour measurement. He also discussed the differences between standards of bodies such as FOGRA and ISO, the latter being purely ‘aim’ values and not procedural standards for colour control.
Kraushaar said certification standards have so far been written only for film-based colour, and that CtP, waterless and stochastic processes do not yet have certification standards, despite popular belief.
ISO standards have been devised over a 10-year period and reflect ink and paper media in use over that time, he said.
Kraushaar was recently appointed convener of ISO TC130’s Working Group 3 (Process Control), a role which sees him lead the Global ISO challenge to bring standards-based printing to the worldwide industry.
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