Felix Brunner studied chemistry at the University of Zurich prior to starting his career in quality control at a major Swiss advertising agency with branches in Frankfurt, Paris and Milan. In this pan-European environment he was soon confronted with the acute problems of colour deviations in the printing process.

He introduced Standard Offset in 1970 which in 1975 was expanded to become Eurostandard System Brunner which takes over 30 process parameters into account. Today Felix Brunner is said to be the unchallenged father of standardisation in offset printing.

In Italy in 1994, Brunner was awarded the Clessidra dell’ Unificazione together with Efi Arazi (founder of Scitex) and Jean Didier.

In 1983, Brunner received the Intertech Technology Award in Pittsburgh, USA. With this award the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) honours new developments that are expected to play a major role in shaping the future of the graphics industry.

Today Eurostandard/Globalstandard is one of the most comprehensive portrayal of the printing process and defines the entire process chain from RGB to printing.

For almost 20 years, the priority has been on precisely defined gray balance.

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